LINGUIST List 4.162

Mon 08 Mar 1993

Qs: Thesaural Relations, mystery, cased subjects, honor, dibs

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1. Knut Hofland, Query: Automatic identification of thesaural relations?
2. Wayles Browne, mysterious language
3. mark, Cased subjects
4. Deborah Berkley, Your honor
5. AHARRIS - Alan Harris, Dibs

Is there any work being done on the automatic identification of thesaural
relations? Bibliographic references would be appreciated. The work of Hearst
and Justeson on the disambiguation of such relations is already known of.

Knut Hofland

Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities,
Harald Haarfagres gt. 31, N-5007 Bergen, Norway

Phone: +47 5 212954/5/6, Fax: +47 5 322656, E-mail: knutx400.hd.uib.no

An art historian here at Cornell is cataloguing the works of the 19th-
century French painter Schuffenecker. One painting, "Au bord de l'Etang
dans le Bois", has the following written on the back:
1895 Ticko~r Camilla Sand Ja~ro~u.
In the handwritten transcription the marks above the o, the a, and the
second o might be tildes or might be breves (short marks) or even umlauts.
Camilla Sand looks like a personal name; can anyone identify the
other two words? The painter worked in Bretagne but is not known to
have been acquainted with Breton.
Thank you for any help. Please reply to me at jn5jcornella.bitnet
or jn5jcornella.cit.cornell.edu, not to the list. Wayles Browne

Would someone please explain precisely what is meant by "dative
(genitive, accusative) subject"?

 Mark A. Mandel
 Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
 320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA

A nonlinguist friend of mine is interested in finding out the origins of
such expressions as "your honor" or "her majesty". Does anyone know of a
good source for this information?

Thank you very much.{
Deborah Milam Berkley
d-m-berkleynwu.edu

QUERY:
WHAT IS THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD, "DIBS"? WHAT ARE THE WAYS THAT IT CAN BE
USED? I AM REMINDED OF THAT GROTESQUELY WONDERFUL LARSEN CARTOON OF TWO LIONS
POKING THEIR HEADS OVER THE TOP OF A HILLOCK AND VIEWING A POTENTIALLY DELIC
IOUS ANTELOPE BELOW. THE JOKELINE CAPTION IS "DIBS"! THANKS IN ADVANCE, ACH