Disjunct/conjunct coinage?

[Joyce McDonough]

A long standing problem. Victor?  That's where I get my best  
information on such problems. He said it was from the notes of Sapir's  
students.

They use also the terms in Tibetan.





On Oct 16, 2009, at 10:00 PM, James Crippen wrote:

> Who coined the terms "disjunct" and "conjunct"? And in what
> publication? I read through Kari 1989 where he reintroduces the term
> "qualifier" from Jetté, as well as the phrase "interrupted synthesis"
> from Sapir & Whorf, as but I didn't see where he might have mentioned
> "disjunct" and "conjunct". Anyone have a citation?
>
> BTW, I haven't forgotten about the terminology thing. This semester is
> a bit busy for me (I have four classes and a teaching assistantship)
> so I don't have as much time as I'd like to devote to my *real* work.
> I have however started to sketch some stuff in a Google Docs document
> and will post my results in the not too distant future.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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