<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ll leave others to talk about syntactic, morphological or semantic issues, but I think on the ph side that<div class="">one of the most important contributions from American languages would be the study of prosodic typology. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Work in the 1950’s on Oto-Manguean drew attention to some of the possible complexities of syllable</div><div class="">patterning and tonal contrasts. More recent work on both Amazonian and North American languages</div><div class="">has helped to build a better picture of the broad continuum of accentual/tonal types (e.g. work on</div><div class="">Cherokee). Athabaskan languages have expanded our understanding of tonogenesis (e.g. Krauss).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 2, 2016, at 08:20, David Beck <<a href="mailto:dbeck@ualberta.ca" class="">dbeck@ualberta.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi, everyone<br class=""><br class="">At the International Journal of American Linguistics, we’re planning a 100th anniversary issue and part of it will have a survey of developments in linguistics and typology influenced by studies of American (in the Arctic-to-Tierra-del-Fueego sense) languages. So, I thought I would do a bit of a straw poll and ask the typological community what areas they thought had been most influenced by data from American languages (rather than relying on my own narrow point of view). Thoughts?<br class=""><br class="">cheers,<br class=""><br class="">David<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Lingtyp mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" class="">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br class="">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class=""><div class="">Ian Maddieson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Department of Linguistics</div><div class="">University of New Mexico</div><div class="">MSC03-2130</div><div class="">Albuquerque NM 87131-0001</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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