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LINGUIST List 17.1912

Thu Jun 29 2006

Qs: Najavo Corpus Request; History of French Textbooks

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        1.    Tammy Gales, Najavo Corpus Request
         2.    Richard Epstein, History of French Textbooks
Message 1: Najavo Corpus Request
Date: 28-Jun-2006
From: Tammy Gales <tgalesucdavis.edu>
Subject: Najavo Corpus Request


I am currently working on a Navajo Syntax project, and I am wondering if
anyone knows of an existing Navajo corpus that is available for research
purposes. I appreciate any feedback or potential ideas.

Thank you,
Tammy Gales
PhD Student
UCDavis, Linguistics Department
tgalesucdavis.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                            Text/Corpus Linguistics
Message 2: History of French Textbooks
Date: 26-Jun-2006
From: Richard Epstein <repsteincamden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: History of French Textbooks


I'll be teaching a course called ''History of the French Language'' and was
hoping that List readers could recommend a textbook? The course will be
geared towards undergraduates with little or no Linguistics background
(mostly none at all) and a wide range of French abilities (from nearly none
to nearly fluent; and presumably, no knowledge at all of Latin).
Therefore, the course will be taught in English. The ideal text, then,
won't be very technical, will cover both internal and external history, and
will be written in English (I suspect in advance that such a text probably
doesn't exist, but I guess it can't hurt to ask!).

Any suggestions for an appropriate textbook and/or useful articles would be
greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. If there's interest, I will
gladly post a summary back to the List.

Best regards,
Rich Epstein
Dept. of English
Rutgers University - Camden

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
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