FYI: Theoretical Ling Papers, New ROA Mirror

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Anna Gavarro Alguero

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We are happy to announce the issue of the Research Reports of the Theoretical Grammar Group (GGT) of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. The following titles are now electronically available at: http://ggt.uab.es/ggt/reports.html Espinal, M. T. 'On the semantic status of n-words in Catalan and Spanish' (GGT-99-1) Adger, D. & J. Quer 'The syntax and semantics of unselected embedded questions' (GGT-99-2) Escobar, L. & A. Gavarro 'The acquisition of Catalan clitics and its implications for complex verb structure' (GGT-99-3) Mateu, J. 'Universals of semantic construal for lexical syntactic relations' (GGT-99-4) Picallo, M. C. 'Rasgos sintacticos y posiciones argumentales en catalan' (GGT-99-5) Hernanz, M. Ll. 'Polaridad y modalidad en espanol: en torno a la gramatica de BIEN' (GGT-99-6) Prieto, P. 'Entonacio. Metodes, teoria, models' (GGT-99-7) Hardcopies may also be obtained at cost price from: Reports de Recerca Departament de Filologia Catalana i Departament de Filologia Espanyola Facultat de Lletres, Edifici B Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) catwpl@cc.uab.es Anna Gavarro' (Marburg/mw) Because of bandwith limitations and increased ne traffic, European linguists interested in Optimality Theory often had trouble connecting to the Rutgers Optimality Archive (ROA) in a fas and reliable way. This may quickly become an experience of the pas with today's launch of ROA-EM, an European Mirror of ROA located a http://www.uni-marburg.de/linguistik/roa ROA-EM provides a second source of the entire repository of ROA papers, faithfully updated each night to mirror the original. Independent search facilities are provided for easy access to its contents. Simultaneously, linguistics at Marburg University proudly presents its new electronic working paper series `Marburger Arbeiten zur Linguistik' (MAL) a http://www.uni-marburg.de/linguistik/mal Users of ROA-EM will immediately feel at home here, because MAL is just another instance of the same archive technology. The first paper in the archive is a technical report entitled `One-Level Prosodic Morphology' (64pp). According to archive developers Markus Walther and Tjark Albers, free open-source software on top of the popular Linux operating system was the key to a successful implementation of both services. Linguists worldwide are hereby encouraged to use both sites in their daily work as well as providing feedback for improvements (send problem reports, if any, to Markus.Walther@mailer.uni-marburg.de).