LINGUIST List 3.252

Mon 16 Mar 1992

Qs: Chinese, Caramazza, Aspect, Italian

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1. Dr M Sebba, Linguistics for Chinese students
2. thomas maxfield, a Caramazza reference?
3. Mari Olsen, query: aspect
4. , Italian corpora

I don't have a solution to Warren Brewer's problem, but have a
related problem and request. I teach an introductory Syntax course
where about fifty per cent of the students (this year, at least) are
Chinese speakers - mostly Cantonese. I asked students on this course
to do a small scale study of the syntax of their own language: the
Chinese students complained that there was nothing in the library that
they could use to help them.

I would be grateful if anyone knows of coherent, up-to-date descriptions
of Chinese which are at a level accessible to undergraduates - preferably
at least some in English, so that I can read them myself!

Mark Sebba

a friend is interested in a paper that Caramazza gave at the CUNY
Sentence Processing Conference about 3 years ago on word reading
in people with visual field neglect. anybody know if this occurs
in print?
thanks,
tom

Could someone please refer me to any literature on aspect, aktionsart
and tense from a machine translation standpoint? I would especially
appreciate work on English, German, Spanish and Greek.

Thank you.

Mari Broman Olsen
Northwestern University
molsenastrid.ling.nwu.edu

	Does anyone know how/where I could access on-line
	corpora in Italian? Preferably, the corpus would
	be representative of various text types but any
	leads would be helpful. Thanks in advance.