Re: Typology and verse-forms

Staving Thomas R. Wier:
>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.
Thanks a lot! It would be very interesting to know their main conclusions.

Pete