LINGUIST List 3.420

Wed 20 May 1992

FYI: Morphology, Concordance

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1. Henry Churchyard, Perfromance morphological lexicalization
2. Pamela Munro, dirtdaubers
3. Michael Covington, Re: 3.406 Queries: fonts, WordPerfect, concordances
4. , Re: Concordance for Mac

Uttered on _Nightline_ (5/14/92) by one Jonathan Turley:

 "...[it is] interesting from a number of point-of-views..."
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 --Henry Churchyard lify436utxvms.cc.utexas.edu

D. Bedell presents a list of generally very trendy black slang words,
but one (at least) of these has a different history, "dirtdobbler",
identified as a type of wasp.
This is standard southern US (I know it primarily from Chickasaw and
Choctaw speakers (using English) in Oklahoma), "dirtdauber" or "muddauber",
a type of wasp. I think there are several varieties; the Audubon soc. guide
to insects identifies the Black-and-yellow Mud Dauber as Sceliphron caementariu
m.
Pam Munro

Message 3: Re: 3.406 Queries: fonts, WordPerfect, concordances

Some phonetic and Cyrillic fonts for Word Perfect 5.1 on the LaserJet
are available by ftp from aisun1.ai.uga.edu.

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I've just received and had a brief look at what seems to be a useful
concordance program for the Mac. It looks very much like a Mac version of
the Longman's Mini-concordancer, though I don't know if it has the same
restrictions on the amount of text it can deal with. It's called D'Accord.
Details from:

MACEYTAYCCIT.ARIZONA.edu (Macey Taylor)
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