[Lexicog] extinct languages...

[Lou Hohulin]

For Phil Cash,

I'm not sure what types of literature you will have to analyze and compare. One caution might be: take special care in studying any 'ritual-type' literature. Tuwali Ifugao (Philippines) has complex morphology (prefixes, infixes, suffixes and reduplications) and in ritual-literature, deities and spirits are addressed by names consisting of 'common' language roots and affixes. However, the affixes function to express chanting meter, rather than having meaning or syntactic function as they normally do in the 'normal' use of common language.

Lou Hohulin




On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:11:07 -0500
 "Mike Maxwell" <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> phil cash cash wrote:
> > one major advance that i have made is capturing the
> > basic prosodic sound pattern which appears as a trochaic word pattern.
> > from there i may be able to show borrowing of forms where comparisons
> > have been made in the literature.
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> I don't have anything particular to add, so I'll add it anyway :-).  I just
> want to say that I think you're doing the right thing, by considering the
> basic word (and/or root) patterns.  Too many comparativists (I won't name
> names) have simply used word lists, without regard for the morphology/
> phonology of the languages.
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> FWIW, my rule of thumb in comparative work for Ecuadorian and Colombian
> languages was if it's over a syllable, it's questionable; if it's over two
> syllables, it's wrong.  Your mileage may vary, of course...
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>     Mike Maxwell
>     Linguistic Data Consortium
>     maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu
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