Workshop on noun classification

[Mike Morgan]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:38 PM, James Crippen <jcrippen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Athabaskan languages of course have a rather unusual noun
> classification system using verbs, and if you're working on this it
> might be a nice excuse to visit Poland.


And much the same type of system is used by most sign language ... which is
one reason why of all spoken languages, the one most sited in sign language
literature on classifier verbs MAY be Navajo!

mike || U C > || мика  || माईक || マイク
    (( Michael W Morgan, PhD ))
linguist at large somewhere in S Asia
(previously mangaing director, Ishara Foudnation (Mumbai))
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