LINGUIST List 2.84

Wednesday, 20 Mar 1991

Disc: Kikongo,PC,Dict's,French,Maltese,Quechua,Heidelberg,Mother

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Directory

1. Ingo Plag, Kikongo
2. David Leip, A call for assistance
3. Wayles Browne, Dictionaries
4. , Structure of French
5. , Maltese
6. , Quechua
7. Karin Haenelt, Job, Queries, Summer School, Conferences
8. , "mother of all battles"

I am looking for somebody with good knowledge of Kikongo. I am especially
interested in all kinds of syntactic constructions involving the verb
SAY as (would-be?) complementizer.

Thanks in advance, Ingo Plag

 A colleague of mine is looking for information on a PC package called,
"Multilingual Scholar". It apparantly is a user-definable keyboard re-mapper.
He would like to find out, who sells it, how much it costs, and what exactly
it does.

Please send replies to: Jon Radue
 Brock University
 <dfraduebrocku.ca>

THanks!
- David Leip.

Colleagues in Zagreb are seeking recent literature about theoretical and
practical lexicography and dictionary-making. They can use materials written
in Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages. If unpublished items are
available, how does one get them? I will pass on replies sent to the list
or directly to jn5jcornella.bitnet or jn5jcornella.cit.cornell.edu
Thank you--Wayles Browne, Cornell U.

I'd appreciate any suggestions for a textbook for an advanced
undergraduate/MA-level course in the structure of French (phonology,
morphology, syntax) which I teach to students of French with
little linguistic background beyond French phonetics. I've
used various texts over the years and don't terribly like any
of them. What is anyone else using?

Thanks for suggestions.
 Margaret Winters <ga3704siucvmb.bitnet>
 Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

Is there anything like "Maltese Made Easy"? or other relatively
accessible teaching grammar of Maltese around in English? A
friend of mine will be there on a Fulbright next year and is
trying to get ready.

Thanks for any suggestions/information...
 Margaret Winters <ga3704siucvmb.bitnet>
 Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

 Possible additional sources on Quechua are:

 for Bolivian: Academic Publications Dept., Summer Institute of 
 Linguistics, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236 (FAX: 
 214-709-2433 or 214-709-3387; email: 
 dalsil!bill.merrifieldtxsil.lonestar.org);

 for Peruvian: Instituto Linguistico de Verano, Apartado 52, 
 Pucallpa, PERU;

 for Ecuadorian: Centro Linguistico, Casilla 17-11-05080, Quito, 
 ECUADOR (FAX: 593-2-441-596).

 George Huttar

linguists at heidelberg:
 here is the address of Prof. Dr. Peter Hellwig, Dept. of Comp. Ling.
 <S=C87;O=DHDURZ1;PRMD=BITNET;ADMD=DBP;C=DE>
 bitnet-format: c87dhdurz1.bitnet

 Karin Haenelt

As an Arab and a Linguist, I too agree with Alexis-Manaster-Ramer about his
agreement with Robert Hoberman that in its given context, "mother of all
battles" meant "the greatest or most important battle." I cannot read much
more than that. --Maher.