LINGUIST List 4.225

Tue 30 Mar 1993

Qs: Extractions, metaphor, historical, IPA for Windows

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1. John Hughes, Extractions from NP
2. , Metaphors
3. Jane Edwards, Historical Linguistics Discussion List?
4. Chen Shu-Fen, Query: IPA Fonts

English allows extraction from NP under certain conditions of lexical
government:
 Which songs-i do you know the lyrics to t-i?
I'd like to know if languages such as Roumanian which allow multiple
wh-fronting from a single clause also allow wh-extraction from NP, and if so
whether they then allow multiple wh-extractions from NPs in a single clause.
I.e., would a sentence like
 What-i what-j did you replace a photo of t-i with a painting of t-j?
be grammatical in such a language? (Assuming the "with" clause is a complement
to the verb.)

Please respond via e-mail. Thanks.

John
hughescis.udel.edu

I am developing my PhD thesis on a philosophical and linguistic approach on
metaphor, and I am interested in getting in contact with people working on
the problem of metaphor in NLP
 Roberta Pires de Oliveira
 e-mail: oliveira%gst%lwcc3.kuleuven.ac.be

I'd be interested in knowing of electronic discussion lists
for historical linguistics.
Thanks,

Jane Edwards (edwardscogsci.berkeley.edu)

 Can anyone give me some information about the use of IPA fonts used
in IBM, especially in Windows 3.1? I know that we can use IPA fonts
provided by WORD 4 or 5 on Macs, choosing LingamII from the Fond Command.
If anyone knows how to get IPA fonts on IBM, please send the information
to me directly, then I will summarize. Thanks.

 Shu-Fen Chen
 Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 sfchenuxa.cso.uiuc.edu