New draft of book on irish noun inflection available

[Tonio Green]

Hi Andrew,

I've only had a chance to glance at the Appendix on the IPA so far, but I 
have a couple of comments:

1. "Wikipedia" is capitalized.
2. My first name is spelled Antony (not Anthony), but please don't give me 
credit by name for the Wikipedia articles. Even though I'm pretty much the 
only contributor to them, Wikipedia articles are all officially written 
collaboratively. (Sort of the way Beatles songs are always by Lennon & 
McCartney even when only one of them actually wrote any given song.)
3. Maybe [pw], [bw], [fw] could be illustrated with "pueblo", "bwana", and 
"Tierra del Fuego" rather than Elmer Fuddese.
4. "Nuke" isn't a good example for the palatal nasal in "ngiall". I'd use 
something like "hang you" instead.

Best,
Tonio

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From: "Andrew Carnie" <carnie at LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 4:47 AM
Subject: New draft of book on irish noun inflection available


> Colleagues,
>
> I've just posted a new draft of my book on Irish Noun inflection that 
> should be published by OUP sometime next year. In this version I've taken 
> a step away from the traditional 5 declension system and tried to put some 
> linguistic basis behind the classification. It's bound to be controversial 
> (or worse ignored!), but I think it's actually on the right track. I'd 
> like to invite people to have a look at it and give me comments. I'd 
> particularly appreciate it if anyone notices any errors in the Irish. Not 
> being a native speaker means that typos and straight up mistakes just pass 
> me by sometimes.
>
> The URL is
>
> http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~carnie/publications/IrishNominalDeclensions.html
>
> Best,
>
> Andrew
>
>
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