serialization

[Jess Tauber]

My other big project is a reconstruction of the grammar and lexicon of
Yahgan, an isolate from Tierra del Fuego. The language when still vital was
becoming heavily serializing, even though for the vaster part it was
dependent marking (although there is good evidence for the inversion of
marking at some higher level- verbs as nouns, nouns as verbs, so is it
secondarily head-marking??). Anybody know of a good set of papers/texts that
would let me bone up on comparative serialization? There's some very neat
stuff here, even the what phonosemantics there is is turned inside out
relative to languages with verbs with heavy manner components lexicalized
onto them (from expressives)- is body-action based (versus the inanimate
sensory leanings of mannerized verbs).

Jess Tauber
zylogy at aol.com
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