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<br><div><div>On 04 Jul 2016, at 10:44, Enrique L. Palancar <<a href="mailto:epalancar@hotmail.com">epalancar@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hi again,</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">May I also add that much of what we know about the syntax of ergativity also comes from the study of the syntax of the Mayan and Zoquean languages of Mexico and not only from Australia.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Antoine Guillaume has also an article coming up in LT showing how many varied spatial notions are encoded morphologically in many languages of South America. That I have seen as well in languages of Mesoamerica, not to mention meronyms, affective verbs, posture words, etc. </div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And my penny for the morphology... because as far as morphological complexity goes in the sense of serious deviations from the ideal one form-one meaning mapping in the morphosyntax, the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico are among the most complex systems we know of in the world by way of inflectional classes, stem classes, glottal classes, tonal classes, and you name it... </div><div><br></div>Best,<div>Enrique</div><div><pre style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Enrique L. Palancar
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<<a href="http://cnrs.academia.edu/EnriquePalancar">cnrs.academia.edu/EnriquePalancar</a>><br></pre><br><div>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:dbeck@ualberta.ca">dbeck@ualberta.ca</a><br>> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 08:20:38 -0600<br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org">LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>> Subject: [Lingtyp] Americanist contributions to typology<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Hi, everyone<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> 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>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> cheers,<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> David<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Lingtyp mailing list<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp</a><br></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Lingtyp mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br><a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>