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<DIV><FONT size=2>(I am resending this once again, it seems it has not reached
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<DIV>I think this is a great undertaking. I have been concerned about the
bizarre <BR>Athabaskanist terminology since the very beginning of my interest in
these <BR>languages. I would propose that this resourse also contains
suggestions on <BR>altering obscure terms and replacing them by more transparent
and more <BR>generally acceptable ones. As I mentioned once in a paper, two
major <BR>typological studies failed to notice the transitivity/valence morpheme
in <BR>front of the root and pictured the Athabaskan languages accordingly. No
<BR>doubt this is because of the "classifier" term. That is, our obscure
<BR>terminology is largely responsible for non-Athabaskanists being unable to
<BR>understand a bit about these languages, which is, to my mind, no good at
<BR>all. Nothing in this world is for ever, and this includes Athabaskanist
<BR>terms. Why don't we change them to more sensible ones? I have been
<BR>suggesting "transitivity indicator", or TI, instead of
"classifier".<BR><BR>A few additional items for the list that immediately come
to mind:<BR><BR>mode<BR>subject and object (as applied to
affixes)<BR>deictic<BR>fourth person<BR>peg
element<BR>transitional<BR><BR>Actually, some of the terms on the list below are
quite normal from the <BR>cross-linguistic point of view, such as distributive
or iterative, and I am <BR>not sure they need to be included. Some are
Athabaskan innovations, and very <BR>fortunate ones, such as Kari's disjunct and
conjunct.<BR><BR>Andrej Kibrik<BR><BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----
<BR>From: "James Crippen" <<A href="">jcrippen@GMAIL.COM</A>><BR>To:
<<A href="">ATHAPBASCKAN-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</A>><BR>Sent: Friday,
October 02, 2009 7:22 AM<BR>Subject: List of Athabaskanist
terminology<BR><BR><BR>> Here's the headwords from Keren Rice's glossary she
handed out at the<BR>> LSA 2009 Institute in Berkeley this
summer.<BR>><BR>> areal<BR>> classificatory verb<BR>>
classifier<BR>> conjugation<BR>> conjunct<BR>> customary aspect<BR>>
D-effect<BR>> derivational potential<BR>> disjunct<BR>>
discontinuity<BR>> distributive<BR>> gender<BR>> iterative<BR>>
multiple<BR>> optative<BR>> qualifier<BR>> root<BR>>
semelfactive<BR>> stem<BR>> thematic prefixes<BR>> verb base<BR>>
verb theme<BR>> verb word<BR>> y-/b- pronouns<BR>><BR>> This is a
good start, but I know that there are other things out<BR>> there, like
distributive, mode, conative, ...<BR>><BR>> Reply with your suggested
terms, I'll start adding them to a Google<BR>> Doc and post the link in a
followup.<BR>><BR>> James <BR></DIV>
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