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Jess,
<p>I suggest you get in touch with Sasha Aikhenvald <a.aikhenvald@latrobe.edu.au>.
She has interesting material on serializazion in the obsolescent stage
of Tariana, an Arawak language of Brazil.
<p>Hans-Juergen Sasse
<p>Jess Tauber schrieb:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>My other
big project is a reconstruction of the grammar and lexicon of</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>Yahgan, an isolate from
Tierra del Fuego. The language when still vital was</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>becoming heavily serializing,
even though for the vaster part it was</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>dependent marking (although
there is good evidence for the inversion of</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>marking at some higher level-
verbs as nouns, nouns as verbs, so is it</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>secondarily head-marking??).
Anybody know of a good set of papers/texts that</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>would let me bone up on
comparative serialization? There's some very neat</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>stuff here, even the what
phonosemantics there is is turned inside out</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>relative to languages with
verbs with heavy manner components lexicalized</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>onto them (from expressives)-
is body-action based (versus the inanimate</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>sensory leanings of mannerized
verbs).</font></font>
<p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>Jess Tauber</font></font>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>zylogy@aol.com</font></font></blockquote>
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