David Beck re:NW Coast Sprachbund

[Henry Zenk]

The paper I was thinking of is "Mosan III: a problem of remote common
proximity," in the Salish Conference preprints for 1997.  While focused on
the traditional genetic grouping of Salish, Wakashan, and Chimakuan
("Mosan"), the paper also has general discussion of and reflections on the
NW Coast Sprachbund.  Henry

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, David Robertson wrote:

> LaXayem siXs,
>
> The paper that's been mentioned which discusses the extent of
> relationships among the language families of the NW Coast is:
> Beck, David.  "Grammatical convergence and the genesis of diversity in the
> Northwest Coast Sprachbund."  Henry may be right about its being in the
> 1997 Salish conference preprints; you can also do a websearch for David
> Beck.  A good search engine will take you to his homepage containing a
> list of his publications.
>
> (David gave me a copy of the paper at this year's Salish conference, even
> though we were assigned to the same dorm room and my snoring tortured him
> mercilessly!)  Na-munk hayash tintin pus na-musEm!
>
> Best wishes,
> Dave R.
>
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