LINGUIST List, February 1994

February 1994 Issues

5.107 Calls: Studies in Spanish, Workshop on Phonological Structure
1. , Call for papers
2. Durham Linguist, Call for Papers
5.108 Qs: Avestan, Telugu, Linguistics in Japan
1. Ruby Chua, Avestan
2. Tracey McHenry, Telugu literatre query
3. robert westmoreland, Linguistics in Japan
5.109 FYI: Basque-origin hypothesis, SCHOLAR Release CZ
1. Anne T Gilman, Basque-origin hypothesis
2. Joseph Raben, Announcement of SCHOLAR Release CZ
5.110 Jobs: Grad Assistant, Professor, Grad study, Asst Professor
1. VIRGINIA C GATHERCOLE, announcement
2. Martin Haspelmath, job: IE Comparative Linguistics
3. Gregory Ward, financial aid for graduate study at Northwestern
4. , Job opening - General linguistics
5. , Seeking French-language linguists
5.111 Qs: Textbook, Computational model, Machine translation
1. David Silva, Readings in Language Study
2. Alison Henry, Computer models of parameter setting
3. , English-Spanish machine translation programs
5.112 Qs: Kleinschmidt, Organic, Folk etymologies, Arabic
1. , Q: Kleinschmidt
2. , Query: The term 'organic'
3. , Linguistic Folk Etymologies, A Query
4. Zhijun Zhang, Question about Arabic
5.113 Qs: Comitatives, Fuzzy grammar, Corpora of non-native speakers
1. BROADWELL GEORGE AARON, Comitatives in the head
2. , fuzzy grammar
3. , corpora of non-native speakers of English
5.114 Qs: Quantifier scope
1. David Gil, QUANTIFIER SCOPE
5.115 Disc: *These man and woman
1. , *These man and woman
5.116 Sum: Machine Translation
1. a mcelligott, Summary of MTS
5.117 Sum: Reviews of Syntactic Structures
1. , Summary: Reviews of Syntactic Structures
5.118 Disc: The Last Phonological Rule: reply to Goldsmith
1. Alex Monaghan, The Last Phonological Rule: reply to Goldsmith
5.119 Disc: The Last Phonological Rule
1. John Goldsmith, Re: 5.118 The Last Phonological Rule: reply to Goldsmith
2. Bill Poser, infinite dimensions
5.120 Qs: Karen, Portuguese, Gujarati, Cairo, Serbo-Croat
1. Susan Butler, Karen
2. beth, Portuguese Texts
3. Thomas B Ernst, Gujarati font
4. "Mel Resnick", Royal Society, Cairo (query)
5. Don Ringe, translators needed (humanitarian)
5.121 Qs: Move-a, Saussure, Gender, Evasion
1. Bill Bennett, Summary of replacement of transformations by move-a
2. Yoko Uchida, Saussure in the United States
3. , Request refs on gender and miscommunication
4. D.Galasinski, evasion
5.122 Jobs: French, Swedish
1. mark, job openings
5.123 Disc: *These man and woman
1. Alexis Manaster-Ramer, Re: 5.115 *These man and woman
2. Larry Horn, Re: 5.115 *These man and woman
3. mark, Re:5.115 *These man and woman
5.124 FYI: AAAS meeting in San Francisco
1. Vicki Fromkin, FYI: AAAS meeting in San Francisco
5.125 Confs: Mixtec, Argument Structure and Phrase Structure
1. Fran Karttunen, Mixtec meeting
2. "George Fowler h(, Workshop on Argument Structure and Phrase Structure
5.126 Calls: Latin, Linguistics by the end of the 20th Century
1. , Eighth International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics
2. Institute of Linguistics, Call for papers
5.127 FYI: Cornell Publications, Computing, Linguistics in Media
1. , announcement (of listserv posting)
2. "Leslie Z. Morgan", book on Foreign Language Computing
3. Joseph P Stemberger-1, linguistics in the media
5.128 Calls: Logic and Language Symposium
1. Jeffrey Goldberg, Call for papers: Logic and Language Symposium (Please Post)
5.129 Sum: Distant Assimilation
1. Brian D Joseph, SUMMARY -- Distant Assimilation
5.130 FYI: Childrens' books in Serbo-Croatian
1. Kate McCreight, Childrens' books in Serbo-croatian
5.131 Qs: Textual Materials, Double Modal, Instituto de Verano
1. Susan Herring, Textual materials in Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Nahuatl
2. 404, Double modal use
3. , Instituto Linguistico de Verano
5.132 Confs: Balkan & Slavic, Speech science
1. "George Fowler h(, 9th Biennian Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics
2. Roberto Togneri, Preliminary Announcement: SST-94
5.133 Qs: Sociophonology, Subjects, CALL, Japanese
1. Gertraud Benke, qs: gender and sociophonology/lexical variation
2. , Query: Subjects <- Comitatives
3. Lorraine R. Shaw, reasearch on CALL
4. "Jim Swanson", Effects of Japanese grammar on learning English
5.134 Qs: Infinitive, Contrastive, Syntax/Morphology Course
1. Shari Rosenblum, The Infinitive
2. Claudia Gdaniec, Contrastive Linguistics
3. , query: combined syntax/morphology course
5.135 Confs: Linguistics Association of Great Britain
1. , Linguistics Association of GB - Salford - 5-7 April 1994
5.136 Disc: *These men and women
1. , Re: 5.123 *These man and woman
2. , *These man and woman
3. ROBERT A ROTHSTEIN, Re: 5.115 *These man and woman
5.137 FYI: Phil-Preprints, Warsaw Summer School
1. , IPPE now accepting papers on disk
2. Pawel Cichawa, FYI: Warsaw Summer School
5.138 Disc: Transformations
1. , RE: 5.67 Qs: Transformations, Text, Halitosis, Mongolian
2. Bill Bennett, asemantic transformations
5.139 Qs: Lunatic Ideas, Argument/adjunct, Roman calves
1. "S.GOODMAN", Lunatic Ideas - HELP
2. Robert Hamilton, Query: argument/adjunct
3. bert peeters, Roman calves
5.140 Jobs: General, Research, Clinical
1. ANNA MORPURGO DAVIES, Lecturership at Oxford
2. , Research Assistantship Vacancy - Programmer-Linguist
3. , Lectureship in Clinical Linguistics
5.141 Jobs: Japanese, Clinical, Psycholinguistics
1. S J Hannahs, Japanese positions available
2. , Clinical Linguistics
3. Mary Ann Geissal, General/Psycholinguistics
5.142 Calls: IAL, Language And Classroom, Whorf
1. Issues in Applied Linguistics, Call for Papers/IAL
2. "Dennis Baron", call for papers
3. Dan Alford, Fishing off the Whorf
5.143 Sum: Machine Translation
1. Aleksander Murzaku, Summary on MT
5.144 Sum: Ergative
1. , Ergativite (the term)
5.145 Calls: SEALS IV, Part-Whole Relations
1. martha ratliff, SEALS IV Call for Papers
2. Laure Vieu, Conceptual Part-Whole Relations
5.146 Sum: Field Methods
1. , Field Methods
5.147 Disc: Dimensionality, Lingua Franca
1. mark, re 5.118: Manaster-Ramer on Goldsmith and dimensionality
2. Celso Alvarez-Caccamo, Lingua franca on the Internet
5.148 Qs: SLA, Japanese Nominals, Idioms, Matched Guise
1. Thomas Nixon, Second Language Acquisition & Intercultural Communication
2. , Query: Japanese Nominal Phrases
3. Chet Creider, Query: making an idiom database
4. , writing, gender, matched guise
5.149 FYI: In Memoriam: Marija Gimbutas
1. Michael Everson, Marija Gimbutas
2. Michael Everson, BALT:4348 A memory of Marija
5.150 Jobs: General ling.; Psycholing.; AI; French
1. , Job announcement
2. , Job Available
3. , Posting
4. E S Atwell, UK PhD studentships at Leeds, England
5. , job
5.151 Jobs: Research, Psycholinguistics, Newcastle, Leeds, French
1. , Job announcement
2. , Job Available
3. , Posting
4. E S Atwell, UK PhD studentships at Leeds, England
5. , job
5.152 Sum: Parsing
1. , summary: parsing query
5.153 Qs: Email, Lacan, Quechua, Generics
1. , E-mail
2. Chris L Johns, Lacan
3. Michael Kac, Quechua Possessives
4. Michael Kac, Marking of Generics
5.154 Qs: Adpositions, Labiodental Nasals, History Functions, German
1. , Agreeing Adpositions and Binding
2. Nick Reid, Labiodental nasal
3. , History functions
4. Joseph P Stemberger-1, Query: German statistics
5.159 Qs: MT; MT tools; Lisp for the MAC
1. Ted Pedersen, Q: Example Based MT
2. a mcelligott, MT tools etc.
3. Michael Kac, LISP for the Mac
5.160 FYI: GLSA publications; CELIA Lang. Software Database
1. Zvi Gilbert, GLSA
2. Thomas Robb, Announcing CELIA Language Software Database
5.161 Books: Typology; Historical Ling
1. @I, Typology; Historical Ling
5.162 Books: Phonology; Phonetics
1. @I, Phonology; Phonetics
5.163 Books: Semantics; Philosophy of Lang; Logic; Computational
1. @I, Semantics; Philosophy of Lang; Logic; Computational
5.164 Disc: Double modals
1. Laurie Bauer, Double modals
2. "I. Plag", Re: 5.131 Qs: Textual Materials, Double Modal, Instituto de Verano
5.165 Qs: Translations, Institutions, Stieber's Law, Morphology
1. Mary Ellen Ryder, Translations of foreign expressions in some ads
2. , Q: How our institutions classify us
3. , Stieber's Law
4. , SLA Morphology
5.166 Confs: FISI-CS
1. SUNY at Buffalo Cognitive Science Announ, 1st Int'l Summer Inst. in Cog. Sci.: FINANACIAL AID
5.167 Confs: CUNY Conference Program
1. , CUNY Conference Program
5.168 Calls: Modern Greek Studies Conference
1. Brian D Joseph, Modern Greek Grad Conference
5.169 Qs: HAM etymology, Coppieters, Nartey, NLP vs. phrase indexing
1. , FOLK ETYMOLOGY - HAM
2. , R.Coppieters
3. , Nartey 1982 reference
4. Y. Shum, Natural Language Processing or Phrase Indexing
5.170 FYI: Oaxaca Native Literacy Project
1. russ bernard, oaxaca native literacy project update
5.172 Sum: Roman calves
1. bert peeters, Roman calves (summary)
5.173 Calls: Teaching and language corpora (TALC94)
1. "Steve Fligelstone", Talc94 - Final Call
5.174 Jobs: Foreign instructor position, Eight month position
1. Tancredi Chris, Foreign Instructor Position at Yokohama Nat'l. Univ (Ling, Lit, TEFL..)
2. , 8 month Teaching Term Position, Memorial University
5.175 Sum: Nasals
1. Nick Reid, Sum: Labiodental nasals
5.176 FYI: Support for linguistics program at BGU, Israel
1. nomi shir, Support for linguistics program at BGU, Israel.
5.177 Calls: Tilburg Conference on Rightward Movement
1. , Tilburg Conference
5.178 Qs: Pronouns, Rumanian, Diacritics, Greenberg
1. Mari Olsen, Q: divine pronouns?
2. Martin Haase, Romanian / Rumanian
3. Caoimhin P. ODonnaile, Sorting diacritics - right to left or left to right?
4. "R.F.H.E. vd Vijver", refernce of Greenberg & Kashube (1967)
5.179 Disc: Last Phonological Rule
1. Alex Monaghan, last phonological rule
5.180 Sum: All, and multiple parts of speech
1. "Ronald Lee Stone", Summary 5.76: ALL, multiple parts of speech
5.181 Sum: Quantifier scope
1. David Gil, QUANTIFIER SCOPE
5.182 Sum: Verbs of saying
1. Lisa Reed, Sum: Verbs of Saying
5.183 Jobs: German computational, French/Swedish, Research
1. , Job: Computational Linguist (German), CMU
2. mark, Dragon Systems job posting and crosspostings
3. , Research: Academica Sinica
5.184 Disc: *These men and women
1. Leo Obrst, Re: *These men and women
2. , These man and woman
5.186 Disc: Labiodental Nasals
1. John E. Koontz, Re: 5.175 Sum-Nasals
2. , RE: 5.175 Sum-Nasals
5.187 Qs: Elizabethan English, Went, Fieldwork, Technology
1. "Amy J. Schafer", Eliz. Eng. word freq. reference
2. , be
3. Picus Sizhi Ding, Req: Advice on doing fieldwork in China
4. Rosa Volpe, Technology and foreign language skills
5.188 Disc: How institutions classify us: A journal editor's viewpoint
1. Whitaker Harry A., How our institutions classify us: A journal editor's viewpoint
5.189 Qs: Self-assessment; Word-meaning; Gueron; Nasals; Cowell
1. Hartmut Haberland, Self-assessment vs. other-assessment
2. Laurie Bauer, Word meaning
3. "George Fowler h(, Email address for Jacqueline Gueron?
4. Alexis Manaster-Ramer, Re: 5.175 Sum-Nasals
5. Robert D Hoberman, Mark Cowell
5.190 Sum: Fuzzy Grammar
1. , FUZZY GRAMMAR
5.191 Calls: New Journal: Forensic Linguistics, CIFU-8
1. , New Journal: "Forensic Linguistics".
2. , please post
5.192 Confs: Georgetown Round Table
1. , GURT '94 Presessions
5.193 Confs: Language Engineering
1. Network in Language and Speech, Language Engineering
5.194 Confs: Language and Archaeology
1. Malcolm Ross, WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS 3: Language and Archaeology
5.195 FYI: Bedtime reading; Ode to a Spell Checker
1. Edith A Moravcsik, update re bedtime readings
2. alan harris, "AN OWED TO SPELL CHEQUER"
5.196 Disc: Double Modals
1. Richard Hudson UCL, double modals
2. , Re: 5.164 Double modals
5.197 Qs: Irish, Hungarian, NLP, Ga, Multimedia
1. Stefan Troester, Irish Data
2. asolovyo, Help me find Hungarian Corpora
3. Y. Shum, Tools for NLP
4. "Comfort F. A. Wentum", Ga search
5. Y. Shum, Multimedia Document Retrieval and Data Mining
5.198 Qs: MT; Uncommon languages; Prolog; Teke; French
1. Tony Davis, knowledge rep. for MT
2. Dana S. Bourgerie, Learning Materials for Uncommonly Taught Languages
3. , PROLOG
4. , Teke
5. "Raphael Salkie, University of Brighton,, Corpus of contemporary French - a query for the list
5.199 Qs: Spanish; Determiner; Sociolinguistics; Catalan
1. Ted Pedersen, Spanish/English Translation
2. Sungjin HAN, Q: article, determiner, quantifier
3. Donna Jo Napoli, historical socio
4. , UG and Catalan
5.200 Qs: Universal Grammar
1. Joseph P Stemberger-1, Query: UG
5.201 Qs: Chipewyan; Affect; Body language; Linguistics; Spanish
1. Steven Schaufele, query on Chipewyan enclitic conjunction(s) -u
2. Elina Savino, affect/emotion
3. , Query: Body Language
4. , What Linguistics is About
5. , Qu: Spanish Corpora
5.202 FYI: SIL IPA Fonts; Session at MLA
1. "Evan L. Antworth 214-709-3346", SIL IPA fonts 1.2
2. Nancy M. Ide, Call for papers for ACH sessions at the MLA '94 Convention
5.203 Qs: Celtic Handbook: Breton speaker needed
1. Marion GUNN, La/mhleabhar Ceilteach < Celtic Handbook
5.204 Calls: Cognitive linguistics
1. Sherman Wilcox, Call for Papers: ICLA
5.205 Sum: Degree words
1. Luca Dini, sum: Degree words.
5.206 Sum: Stem alternation
1. Jason Johnston, 5.156 Sum: Stem alternation (longish)
5.207 Qs: Morphophonology; Onomatopoeia; Net Resources; Lexicalization
1. "Richard L. Goerwitz", morphophonology; morphophonemics
2. Enid Wai-Ching Mok, RE:query:onomatopoeia
3. Natalie Maynor, Net Resources for Linguists?
4. "Marie Egan", Q: Lexicalization of phrases
5.208 Jobs: LINGUIST fellowship
1. Helen Dry, LINGUIST fellowship
5.209 Sum: Negation in French and English, Scrambling
1. "Raf Salkie, University of Brighton, UK", Sum: Negation in French and English
2. , Summary: Scrambling
5.210 Qs: Syllable coda, PC-KIMMO, North Halmaheran, Bali-Sasak
1. John Goldsmith, Syllable coda possibilities
2. "Evan L. Antworth", PC-KIMMO descriptions wanted
3. , North Halmaheran languages
4. , Bali-Sasak languages and Sumbawan
5.211 Sum: Clitics
1. , Summary: Clitics
5.212 Qs: Borrowings, Romance, Corpus tager, Phonology
1. Yusuf Pisan, Query: What words are borrowed easily and why
2. , Re: 5.172 Sum-Roman calves
3. Alison Moore, corpus tagger
4. "Walter G. Rolandi", acquisition of phonology
5.213 Qs: Klingon, Hansard corpus, Electronic thesaurus, Navajo
1. Joseph P Stemberger-1, Query: Okrand/Klingon
2. Sadler L, Re: 5.198 Qs: MT, Uncommon languages; Prolog; Teke; French
3. Mike McCourt, Electronic Thesaurus
4. , Navajo query
5.214 Qs: Classroom interaction, English dialects, Cynicism
1. Simon Williams, Corpus of classroom interaction
2. mmackenz, looking for refs on southern English
3. , Query: Cynicism
5.215 Books: Asian and African langs.
1. @I, Asian and African langs.
5.216 Books: Syntax, Ling theory, Formal ling
1. @I, Syntax, Ling theory, Formal ling
5.217 Books: Psycholing, Lang Acquisition
1. @I, Psycholing, Lang Acquisition
5.219 Disc: Labiodental nasals
1. Peter Ladefoged, Re: 5.186 Labiodental Nasals
2. Joseph P Stemberger-1, Re: 5.175 Sum-Nasals
5.220 Sum: Lateral fricatives
1. MARC PICARD, Lateral fricatives summary
5.221 Sum: Burushaski
1. , Sum: Burushaski
5.222 Disc: Universal grammar
1. , Re: 5.200 Universal Grammar
2. Simon Kirby, Re: 5.200 Universal Grammar
5.223 FYI: Corrections: Stem alternations, IATL fax number
1. Jason Johnston, Sum: Stem alternations -- correction
2. Anita Mittwoch, IATL --Correction of fax number
5.224 Disc: Universal grammar
1. David Powers, Re: 5.222 Universal grammar
2. Richard Hudson UCL, UG
5.225 Calls: Slavic linguistics workshop, MLA '94
1. , slavic linguistics workshop
2. "Suzanne Fleischman", MLA '94--Lx and Lit sessions
5.226 Qs: Serbo-Croatian book, Concordancing Programs, Epenthetic _n_
1. Mary Ellen Ryder, Serbo-Croatian grammar book
2. , Comments On Concordancing Programs
3. Loren Allen Billings, T
5.227 Qs: Aslian languages, Afrikaans & Hungarian, Transformations
1. , Aslian languages and authors.
2. , Qs: Afrikaans, Hungarian
3. , RE: 5.138 Transformations
5.228 Sum: Argument/Adjunct
1. Robert Hamilton, Sum: Argument/Adjunct
5.229 Jobs: Lecturer at Macquarie University
1. Ken Willing, Position: Lecturer, Linguistics: Macquarie University
5.230 Qs: Reference, Phonological rules, Global rules, Spatial
1. Monique Rolbert, reference
2. Robert J Kuhns, Query - English Phonological Rules
3. , Query: Whatever happened to global rules in syntax
4. Karen Emmorey, Spatial descriptions
5.231 Calls: 1st Int'l Colloquium on Deixis
1. Joachim Knuf, Call for papers: 1st Int'l Colloquium on Deixis
5.232 Disc: Double modals
1. Marianna Di Paolo, Re: 5.196 Double Modals
2. , RE: 5.131 Qs: Textual Materials, Double Modal, Instituto de Verano
5.233 Qs: Discourse analysis, Sanskrit fonts, Chinese, Statistics
1. Teresa M. Meehan, software
2. Chen Shu-Fen, IBM fonts for Sanskrit
3. Minglang Zhou, translation software
4. Lars Martin Fosse, Statistics
5.234 Disc: Quantifiers
1. Carpenter, quantifiers
5.235 Sum: Gender and miscommunication
1. , Message to be posted
5.236 Confs: GURT '94 Preconference Tutorials
1. , GURT '94 Preconference Tutorials