Peter_Constable@... wrote:

>
> On 11/09/2001 06:45:27 AM "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
>
> >> Maybe. The question is, what does that mean? Do we have a definition
> >> of the "featural" class that is good enough that we can look at other
> >> scripts and tell whether or not they too are featural?
> >
> >The term and definition are Sampson's.
>
> >> | Which does not, however, mean it represents Jakobsonian distinctive
> >> | features.
> >>
> >> What are they? What is a good place to learn about them?
> >
> >Any textbook on phonology.
>
> >> | - what is the type of scripts in the Brahmic script family?
> >>
> >> * Peter T. Daniels
> >> |
> >> | Abugida, by definition
> >>
> >> What? Is the definition of abugida "Brahmic-like script", or is it as
> >> given in B&D?
> >
> >What's the difference?
>
> Peter: You're being singularly uncooperative here. Lars is trying to learn
> and is asking you fairly explicit questions that you are certainly capable
> of answering. Don't tell him "go read B&D" because he has done so and has
> found the explanations there insufficiently explicit. And please don't
> tell him "go and read Sampson" or "go and read DeFrancis" because you've
> got the resources right at your fingertips and he may not have ready
> access to them. (I highly doubt I'd find them in the local branch of the
> Dallas library.)

I am NOT capable of answering them in a brief e-mail at 7:30 in the
morning. He needs to read the literature, or to take a course at a
university.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...