Re: Typology and verse-forms

From:    Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>
> > The is a programmatic but fascinating article on this by Patricia
> > Donnegan and David Stampe in CLS (Proc. of the nth regional meeting
> > of the Chicago Linguistic Society) from c. 1983. For the full
> > reference, I suggest either Google or Dirk; each is pretty reliable!
> > Dirk might also know whether Donnegan & Stampe took that work further
> > subsequently.
>
> Alas, "Donnegan Stampe" is a GoogleWhack, and leads not to the desired
> reference, but to an article about Sprachbund in SE Asia written by someone
> else entirely. Of Dirk I know nothing.
Or I can do it -- I am a *current* officer of the Chicago Linguistic
Society, afterall.  I have access to all the proceedings for all
four decades of CLS's existence, in fact.  If you still need it, I can
take a look next time I'm in the CLS office.

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