12.743, Qs: Takhelne/Gaelic Link, Morphological Ambiguity

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Subject: 12.743, Qs: Takhelne/Gaelic Link, Morphological Ambiguity

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1)
Date:  Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:23:08 -0500
From:  <colkitto at sprint.ca>
Subject:  Takhelne Indian/Gaelic Link

2)
Date:  Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:19:30 -0000
From:  Karen Froud <k.froud at ucl.ac.uk>
Subject:  Morphological ambiguity

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:23:08 -0500
From:  <colkitto at sprint.ca>
Subject:  Takhelne Indian/Gaelic Link

Several years ago (late seventies/early eighties)  Barry Fell (author of
America BC) seems to have suggested that "the vocabulary and grammar of a
group of Carrier Indians in BC (Takhelne) ... is a Creole Celtic tongue
related to Gaelic."

Does anyone know if this suggestion came to anything (including debunking!)?

Thanks in advance,

Robert Orr






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Date:  Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:19:30 -0000
From:  Karen Froud <k.froud at ucl.ac.uk>
Subject:  Morphological ambiguity



Dear Linguists,
I'm trying to think of a novel example of a structurally ambiguous word
- being tired of unlockable, undoable, untieable - for my first year
undergraduate Introduction to Syntax assignment. Any fun examples you
can share with me? I'll gladly post a list back if there are enough
responses.
Thanks, and best wishes -
Karen.

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School of Psychology
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