LINGUIST List 4.232

Tue 30 Mar 1993

Qs: Arabic, Basic-level, Russian Sign, Polish

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1. Mohammed Sawaie, Arabic Text Processing
2. Elissa Feit, Basic Level Categories
3. , Russian Sign Language
4. , Students of Polish as a second language

>From Mohammed Sawaie (e-mail address follows)
MSfaraday.clas.Virginia.edu
Does any one know of an Arabic text processing Program? Any
information about a specific program that is in existence or is
in the process of development will be most apprciated. Names of
Prgrams and/or venders, location can help me access information
fast. Thank you
sa

Does any one know of any research done to determine whether it is
cognitively valid to speak of verbs as being basic-level actions/events
(e.g., "eat" as a basic-level action vs "ingest" as a superordinate, or
"dine", "sup", "devour", "wolf (down)" as subordinate level actions). It
seems intuitive to me that this would be the case.

The principle research (Rosch E. (1978) "Principles of Categorization";
Rosch E., Mervis, C.B., Gray, W.D., Johnson, D.M., Boyes-Braem, P. (1976)
"Basis objects in natural categories") concerns the cognitive validity of
certain nouns as being basic-level objects, but omits the mention of verbs
at all.

Elissa Feit (feitcs.buffalo.edu)

I am posting this on behalf of a student. Is there any linguist in
the Washington, D.C. area who knows (or knows about) Russian Sign
Language? If so, please reply to me at: doughtycguvax or
doughtyc.georgetown.edu and I will pass along the information to our
student. Thank you.

Catherine Doughty
Department of Linguistics
Georgetown University

I would like to know if anyone has seen reported how many students of
Polish there are in US?