Introduction

[jlarmagost]

Hi, all

I've been lurking around the fringes of the list for awhile and thought it
might be proper to introduce myself since only a few of you know me and I'm
about to go public in reply to Tony's latest in the 'blue heron' thread.

I got my PhD in linguistics at U Washington in the early 1970s, taught at
Kansas St Univ until 2001 and am now blissfully retired and living once
again in the Northwest, about an hour north of Seattle. My area of
specialization at KSU was the Comanche language, which I still dabble in at
times, but I've recently taken some introductory courses in Lushootseed
(Salish) and--more to the point--am now trying to learn as much Chinook
proper as I can. It's a rather steep learning curve and about as different
from Comanche as could be, I guess, if we ignore tone languages. I've
certainly been enjoying what little CW sinks into my head from what I've
been reading here in the list.

Well, that's brief but gives you some idea of who I am.

Jim

jlarmagost at verizon.net

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