<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td style='font: inherit;'><P>Many thanks for your email. </P>
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<P>Perhaps I should know what a 'predicative syntax' means, but, sorry, I don't.</P>
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<P>I'm studying Austronesian numerals, and the big, yawning, gap is between New Guinea and anything west of there, in the higher numerals, teens and decades, and in numeral classifiers. The information has long been in libraries, but not on the internet, which is all that is available to me.</P>
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<P>If you have an idle student around, somewhere, please put him or her to work just collecting the terms for 10, 11, 15, 20, 30, 40 and 50 from whatever WAN languages they can find.</P>
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<P>That would be hugely helpful.</P>
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<P>regards</P>
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<P>Richard<BR></P>
<P>Message: 2<BR>Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:33:35 -0400<BR>From: "Paz B. Naylor" <pnaylor@umich.edu><BR>Subject: Re: [An-lang] Journal of the Polynesian Society<BR>To: <richardparker01@yahoo.com>, <an-lang@anu.edu.au><BR>Message-ID: <004301c8bb58$091de750$6801a8c0@paz01><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<BR><BR>Thank you very much for sharing.<BR><BR>For someone who has long been wondering about a shared basic 'predication<BR>syntax' betwee WAN and EAN, this should indeed be a goldmine of<BR>information.<BR><BR>With kind regards, Paz<BR><BR><BR>Paz Buenaventura Naylor, Ph.D.<BR>Emeritus Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures<BR> Program Associate, Linguistics<BR> Faculty Associate, Center for SSEAsian Studies<BR>(formerly) Assistant Professor,
Linguistics<BR> Lecturer, Teaching Fellow, Romance Languages<BR>The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109<BR>Home Address: 2032 Winsted Blvd., Ann Arbor MI 48103<BR> Tel/Fax: 734-995-2371<BR><BR> ----- Original Message ----- <BR> From: Richard Parker <BR> To: an-lang@anu.edu.au <BR> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:03 AM<BR> Subject: [An-lang] Journal of the Polynesian Society<BR><BR><BR> The Journal of the Polynesian Society is publishing its old volumes<BR>on-line, fully searchable, at:<BR> http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/browse.php<BR><BR><BR><BR> So far, they've put 1892-1936 online, but add another year's<BR>issues every week or
so.<BR><BR><BR><BR> There are some classic studies, including first grammars and<BR>vocabularies of many Polynesian languages, and much else.<BR><BR><BR><BR> Most of the contributors were actually there when the languages were<BR>still vital, or even original, so their articles are worthwhile.<BR><BR><BR><BR> Highly recommended<BR><BR><BR><BR> regards<BR><BR> Richard<BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR> _______________________________________________<BR> An-lang mailing list<BR> An-lang@anu.edu.au<BR> http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/an-lang<BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML
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