Salvete,
Ray Brown scripsit:
> > I think he was quite serious that spoken French should be reanalyzed
this
> > way,
>
> I am sure he was; and Jacques Guy took a similar line IIRC, and it is an
> analysis that I have been familiar with for many years.
In 1989 I was taught a course in General Linguistics at the Kiev State
University. The lecturer was a quite outstanding Ukrainian professor Dr.
K.M.Tyshchenko. He shocked us by telling the same things about French
polysynthesis we're discussing now. This idea seems very reasonable for me
even now.
-- Yitzik