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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Edward  J. Vajda (IPA: vajda)
Institution:	Western Washington University
Email:	click here to access email
State and/or Country:	USA
Linguistic Field(s):	General Linguistics
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Ket  Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia  Ket  Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages  Dictionary of the Yugh Language
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	Ket
Reviewer of:	Language Description: Watters (2002) (LL Issue 14.1859) Language Description: Maslova (2003) (LL Issue 14.2413) Lang Description/Sino-Tibetan: LaPolla (2003) (LL Issue 16.671) Morphology/Amerindian Langs: Stonham (2004) (LL Issue 16.1104) Lang Description/Anthropological Ling: Majewicz (2004) (LL Issue 16.1812) Lang Description/Amerindian Lang: Hardman (2001) (LL Issue 16.2959)
Academic Paper Abstract:	Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Classifiers: a typology of noun categorization devices. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxvi+535. R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), Changing valency: case studies in transitivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+413.
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