Areal prefix

Seth Cable scable at LINGUIST.UMASS.EDU
Sat Mar 7 22:21:26 UTC 2009


Hi James,

I'm pretty sure there's discussion of the areal in Rice's (2000) book.  I'm away
from my "office library", so I can't double check, but just thought I'd shoot
that out there...

Best,

-- Seth.

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Quoting James Crippen <jcrippen at GMAIL.COM>:

> I'm looking for references on the form and function of the areal
> prefix in various Athabaskan languages, as well as historical
> reconstructions in Proto-Athabaskan(-Eyak) and Proto-Na-Dene (PAET).
> It's difficult to search for "areal prefix" since I get a lot of false
> hits. Anyone have good references at hand? Published or not, I don't
> mind.
>
> My reason for asking is that I'm investigating a probably related form
> in Tlingit, where it appears to overlap with the indefinite human
> object prefix.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>



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