Re: Trigger languages
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 26, 2004, 20:09 |
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Roger Mills wrote at 2004-09-21 17:15:54 (-0400)
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> Leonard Bloomfield, way back in the 20s or 30s, did an extensive
> study of Tagalog-- probably one of the first in English. I read it
> so long ago I've forgotten everything; but for someone interested,
> it might be worthwhile to see how he handled it from his
> Structuralist POV.
I was just reading another paper[1] on Tagalog by Nikolaus Himmelmann,
and the second sentence of his introduction is "Since then, quite a
few grammars have been published, including the perhaps finest piece
of American Structuralist grammar writing, Bloomfield's (1917)
_Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis_". So he likes it, at
least.
[1] http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~himmelmann/multifunctional_ma_07-04.pdf