What Bloomfield said. but did adopt

[De Reuse, Willem]

Hi Anthony, I do not want to go too far afield out of Siouan, but what do you mean exactly by "arguably the best grammar of an Austronesian language."?    I only know about Bloomfield's "Tagalog Texts".  Austronesian is such a huge family, with lots of people working on it,  I would think there is a more recent grammar considered the best grammar of an Austronesian language these days.

Willem
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Subject: Re: What Bloomfield said. but did adopt

It adds an extra poignancy when one realises that the Bloomfields didn't have children two boys, one of whom asked them to adopt the other one, for whose loneliness in the orphanage he had felt sympathy.  Alice Sayers Bloomfield was none too robust.   And even though Bloomfield's concept of 'Central Algonquian' is awry, he did splendid work on an Ojibwa idiolect, Menominee, tons of Plains Cree and  (second-hand) Mesquakie, and wrote arguably the best grammar of an Austronesian language.  Go Len!

Anthony


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