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Re: THEORY: French and polypersonalism (was: THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism)

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Thursday, January 20, 2005, 21:16
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