LINGUIST List 10.739

Fri May 14 1999

Qs: Kashmiri, Fictional dialogue, Roviana

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Bruce T. Moren, Kashmiri speaker
2. Michele.Neylon, Analysis of fictional dialogue
3. Peter Ninnes, Roviana

Dear LINGUISTLIST,

I am looking for a native speaker of Kashmiri (Dardic Indo-Aryan
language spoken mostly in the Kashmir province of India) to verify the
stress assignment on the words below. Notes about transcription: [I]
is "barred I", [^] is schwa, [C] is the lax mid back vowel "reverse
C", [S] is "esh", and main stress is marked with an apostrophe before
the stressed syllable.

['ba.tI]		'food/cooked rice'
['phi.ki.ri]		'understand'
['ku.ni.vi.zi]		'sometime'
['a.ni.ga.tI]		'darkness'
['^^.nI]		'mirror'
['ki.taab]		'book'
['baa.sun]		'to seem'
[mC.kI.'laa.vun]	'to finish'
['baa.laa.d^r]		'balcony'
['dee.v^^.lii]		'the Hindu festival of lights'
['k^^.phii]		'enough'
['aa.raam]		'rest'
[mu.'kad.di.ma]		gloss?
[vah.'raa.vun]		'to spread'
['gi.dun]		'to play'
['y^m.bIr.zal]		'narcissus'
[boo.'dees.var]		'Lord'
['na.kI.voor]		'nostril'
[So.'kIr. vaar]		'Friday'
[vuS.'naa.vun]		'to warm'
[pham.'vaa.rI]		'fountains'
[dar.'vaa.zI]		'door'


Thank you in advance for your help.

Bruce Moren

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 Bruce Moren
 Linguistics Department
 University of Maryland
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 College Park, MD 20742-7515
 http://www.wam.umd.edu/~moren	
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Dear linguists:
I am looking for any references related to the analysis of fictional
dialogue, or the representation of dialogue in fiction. References of
any type would be greatly appreciated. I will post a summary.

Mr. Michele J. Neylon,
Dept. of Languages & Cultural Studies,
University of Limerick,
Limerick,
Ireland.
Tel.: +353-61-202670
Fax: +353-61-202572
http://www.ul.ie/~neylonm

I would like to know if anyone is currently working on the Roviana
language from the Western Province, Solomon Islands. Can anyone tell
me what work has been done recently? Has the Roviana dictionary
[Waterhouse, J. H. L. 1949. A Roviana and English
Dictionary. Epworth, Sydney (Revised and enlarged by L. M. Jones)]
been reprinted or revised? I have put a very basic English-Roviana
word list on the web if anyone is interested.

http://fehps.une.edu.au/f/s/edu/pNinnes/roviana/eng-rovwordlist.html

Is anyone else working on electronic resources for this language?

Peter Ninnes

Dr Peter Ninnes
Lecturer in Sociology of Education
School of Education Studies
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351
AUSTRALIA

Ph (02) 6773 3087 (within Australia) 61 2 6773 3087 (International)
Fax (02) 6773 3350 (within Australia) 61 2 6773 3350 (International)

http://fehps.une.edu.au/f/s/edu/pNinnes/h.html