<div dir="ltr">Dear Athabaskianists, yá'át'ééh !<div><br></div><div>I have just published an article (in Linguistic Typology) on the issue of disharmony between affix ordering and basic word order. Here is an offprint:<br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.academia.edu/2008163/Harmonization_and_disharmonization_of_affix_ordering_and_basic_word_order">http://www.academia.edu/2008163/Harmonization_and_disharmonization_of_affix_ordering_and_basic_word_order</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The article mainly discusses the verbal template of Japhug Rgyalrong, a polysynthetic Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Eastern Tibet (which, like Athabaskan languages, has strict verb final order with overwhelmingly prefixing verbal morphology) in a historical perspective (how particular morphemes were grammaticalized as prefixes rather than suffixes, despites the fact that the basic corresponding construction should have led to the grammaticalization as suffixes).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I did not really discuss Athabaskan in detail due to my insufficient knowledge of this field. However, I think that typologically similar phenomena are probably attested in Athabaskan.</div><div><br></div>
<div>I would be much interested to have feedback from Athabaskianists on this particular topic (in particular, concerning the idea proposed by Givón 2000 on the origin of some prefixes in Tolowa); there are very few strict OV languages with mainly prefixing verbal templates (as far as I know only Na-Dene, Ienissean and Rgyalrong), and typological comparison of the morphosyntax of these languages could be interesting, but it is not a one-man project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best wishes to all of you,</div><div><br></div><div>Guillaume Jacques <br><br></div><div> </div>-- <br>Guillaume Jacques<br>CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO<br><a href="http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques" target="_blank">http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques</a><br>
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