What Bloomfield said. but did adopt

[Anthony Grant]

BTW, Willem, a big plug for your book on descriptive fieldwork to you and Shobhana C!  My doctoral student thinks it's marvellous.  So do I.

Anthony

>>> "De Reuse, Willem" <WillemDeReuse at MY.UNT.EDU> 14/05/2013 20:03 >>>
Thanks Anthony.  That is good to know.

Willem
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Hi Willem:

John Wolff thought that Bloomfield's treatment of Tagalog merited this accolade, and I'm happy to agree with this.  It would be invidious for me to compliment any living Siouanist for their grammar of their language, but I do like the late Carolyn Quintero's work on Osage.

A

>>> "De Reuse, Willem" <WillemDeReuse at MY.UNT.EDU> 14/05/2013 15:32 >>>
Hi Anthony, I do not want to go too far afield out of Siouan, but what do you mean exactly by "arguably the best grammar of an Austronesian language."?    I only know about Bloomfield's "Tagalog Texts".  Austronesian is such a huge family, with lots of people working on it,  I would think there is a more recent grammar considered the best grammar of an Austronesian language these days.

Willem
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From: Siouan Linguistics [SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu] on behalf of Anthony Grant [Granta at EDGEHILL.AC.UK] 
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 4:44 PM
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Subject: Re: What Bloomfield said. but did adopt

It adds an extra poignancy when one realises that the Bloomfields didn't have children two boys, one of whom asked them to adopt the other one, for whose loneliness in the orphanage he had felt sympathy.  Alice Sayers Bloomfield was none too robust.   And even though Bloomfield's concept of 'Central Algonquian' is awry, he did splendid work on an Ojibwa idiolect, Menominee, tons of Plains Cree and  (second-hand) Mesquakie, and wrote arguably the best grammar of an Austronesian language.  Go Len!

Anthony


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