Comparative Grammar workshop

[R. Rankin]

> Linda, if you really want to do TAM I'll withdraw my 
> suggestion to take care of that topic. One of the 
> reasons why I wanted to do it was that there are, at 
> least in Lakota, lots of badly underdescribed 
> auxiliaries involved, but as your mention of syntax 
> implies, this might be the same in Assiniboine.

Actually, there are a lot of such things in all the 
languages.  TAM morphology contains the greatest 
variety of DIFFERENT inflectional morphemes in the 
family.  Some, in languages like Tutelo or Biloxi, 
remain unidentified to this day.  There is no reason 
why two or more people couldn't cooperate on the TAM 
topic (or perhaps split it into T, A, and M) and then 
perhaps divide another topic a different way.  This 
whole thing is completely open.  Let's don't worry 
about who does what at the moment.  Trust me, there'll 
be plenty of fun for everybody.  :-)

Why doesn't everyone make their own list of topics they 
would like to see covered and then RANK ORDER them. 
The organizers can then just amalgamate the lists and 
submit the result for approval.  Could we maybe 
accomplish that in the next couple of weeks sometime? 
Do we need longer?

And congratulations to Linda!  We all look forward to 
seeing the finished product of her research.

Bob