serialization

[Hans-Jürgen Sasse]

Jess,

I suggest you get in touch with Sasha Aikhenvald
<a.aikhenvald at latrobe.edu.au>. She has interesting material on
serializazion in the obsolescent stage of Tariana, an Arawak language of
Brazil.

Hans-Juergen Sasse

Jess Tauber schrieb:

> 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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