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Crossword

by Tim Pulju

Across
1. Trace amount
5. PBS docum. series, first episode was American Tongues
8. MIT’s Dept. of Ling. and ____
12. Theaters
13. Mother Tongue speaker?
14. Spanish trill
15. Back or raise (homonymy)
16. Kind of obj.
17. Westernmost Indic speakers
18. What you do to Equi-NP
20. Himalayan nation
22. Neither’s partner
23. Old English letter
24. President when Vol. 1 of The Handbook of American Indian Languages came out
27. August Wilhelm or Friedrich
32. Cope prefix
33. Anti-pollut. org.
34. Wonder
35. Certain pronouns
38. Like some variation
39. Umlauting plural
40. Roman household god
42. Chomskyan maxims?
45. “Go postal” and “kick the bucket”
49. Strong preterite, Class I
50. Given
52. ____-Altaic (19th-century proposal)
53. Proto-World speaker?
54. Where Caddo, Mikasuki, and Tubatulabal are spoken
55. Rumbaughs’ first pupil
56. Na-____ family
57. Berlin’s partner
58. “Now ____ me down to sleep”
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24  25  26                27  28  29                       30  31 
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35                36  37                              38                      
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42  43                       44         45                46  47  48 
49                              50  51                52                      
53                              54                       55                      
56                              57                       58                      

      Down
1. Minimum free form
2. ____-fixe
3. Cuneiform cylinder
4. PIE, to PGmc.
5. Holger
6. Egg (bound form)
7. Could be finite
8. Read through
9. Great Dane
10. La Douce
11. What Jack’s wife avoided
19. Infinitive marker
21. Young Henry V
24. Medial sound in latter
25. Nim or Koko
       26. Atayal, for example
28. Financ. advis.
29. M.A.K. (Michael to friends)
30. West African language
31. Robert E. (not Robert B.)
36. Unit of meaning
37. Number of living Yeniseian languages
38. Rhaeto-Romance region
41. Position prefix
42. Student seeking PhD
43. Stratificational AND or OR
44. Market, in Marrakesh
46. [-nasal]
47. Power, in Polynesia
48. Kill
51. Publ. of Language

   
S L A T E R   L I   I Q   S R
L I N G U A   A D   B U T C H
A S T I R     Z O O   O H N O
P   I F O N L Y   A Z T E C  
P S Q     I I   U R   T O   T
E L U D E   G A P     A R E A
R Y E B R E A D   B O   Y A P
      S E X T   P Y R O      
C H G       U T U   D E B U G
P E R T U   R E L     M E T A
U R A   M O E   J E     O A V
    M A L     H U R T   W N A
W O M B A T   E   B L E U   G
T R A D U C E R   T A A L L A
F A R   T   M E       P F U I

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Gee, Your Name Looks Funny!—Book Announcement from Psammeticus Press
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