LINGUIST List 11.52

Fri Jan 14 2000

Qs: Etymology, Frequency Word Lists, Ling Posters

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Ronald E.Emmerick, "Etymologies are either obvious or wrong"
2. Lidia Lluis, frequency word lists for German, French, Spanish and Italian
3. Mark Turner, Linguistic posters?

"Etymologies are either obvious or wrong". This is a saying I first
heard from my former teacher in Cambridge, the late Sir Harold Bailey,
who also knew its source. I made a note of it but cannot find it. I
thought it was an American linguist but I am not sure. It has been
suggested it may be Meillet, but no one has so far been able to give me
chapter and verse. It is not in the OED.

- 
Prof. Dr. Ronald E. Emmerick
Hamburg University

I am looking for frequency word lists for German, French, Spanish and Italian,
extracted from written texts.

Thanks.

I'm in a new office and have some walls to decorate.

I'd appreciate hearing about posters or prints on any 
linguistic topic: language family trees, IPA symbols, 
language or dialect maps, grammatical diagrams, 
early dictionaries, writing systems (Rosetta Stone?),
old phonetic instruments, or anything else.

Please mail me directly, and I'll post a summary of the 
responses.

Thanks,

Mark Turner
mturnerhtech.com