On in

Kay Read kay.a.read at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 14:14:32 UTC 2009


Hello Again,
Gordan, your description of this person pretty much fits Jane to a tee,
except that I can't answer for whether you had ever met her or not.  I
suspect that you have though, since before her death a few years ago, she
was a regular attendee at conferences.

Kay

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Michael Swanton <mwswanton at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Jane Rosenthal also had some article appear in the CLS papers on this
> subject in the early 70s, the 1972 “Chicago Which Hunt” and the 1973 “You
> Take the High Node and I’ll Take the Low Node”. Ronald Langacker then
> commented on Classical Nahuatl relative clauses in IJAL (1974, v. 41). Also
> in the CLS papers Frances Karttunen responded to Rosenthal’s and Langacker’s
> previous articles in 1976.
>
>
> --- On *Mon, 7/13/09, Gordon Whittaker <gwhitta at gwdg.de>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Gordon Whittaker <gwhitta at gwdg.de>
> Subject: [Nahuat-l] On in
> To: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org
> Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 7:13 PM
>
>
> Dear Fran, Kay, Michael and Claudine,
>
> Thank you all very much for your very helpful comments. And thanks,
> Claudine, for your offer concerning a copy of Jane Rosenthal's MA thesis,
> for which I would be eternally grateful. Let me know if there's anything
> in Göttingen I could send you in return (photocopies, euros, jade, a few
> quetzal feathers). We could set up a kind of kula ring, now that
> Mesoamericanist Studies in Germany has been moved up on the 'endangered
> species' list to 'almost extinct'.
>
> I seem to recall that someone either gave a paper on IN or published an
> article (as opposed to a thesis) specifically on the subject, and that IN
> was in the title. I had tried in Andrews and elsewhere to track it down,
> but without success. I remember seeing the reference in the mid '80s, and
> do recall that the author was a woman, one whom I've actually met, but my
> recollection was that the author in question died some time afterwards,
> which is why I feel sure that someone else besides Rosenthal had published
> on IN. Now, if only I could remember the name ...
>
> Best,
> Gordon
>
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