LINGUIST List 4.341

Thu 06 May 1993

Qs: Spanish corpora, Theme and patient, Cherokee, Holmqvist

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1. Brendan Murphy - MSc, spanish corpora
2. , Query: Are "theme" and "patient" the same or different?
3. Mark Hansell/ Mai Hansheng, Query: Cherokee grammar
4. Elissa Feit, Does anyone have an e-mail address for:

I am planning a research project to build some tools for
morphological/syntactic analysis of Spanish and am having difficulty
accessing suitable corpora. I would be grateful if anyone could send me
relevant info. on extant Spanish corpora and those in construction,
and the possibility of access - either by remote login or FTP, if
free, or arrangements for site licence if not.

yours
b.murphy

Some scholars dealing with thematic roles, (aka theta roles, semantic
cases, deep cases) use the term "theme", others say "patient". A few,
such as Van Valin, claim that the two are different categories, and
that it matters in some languages.

I have never seen any language in which alleged "themes" were treated
any differently than alleged "patients". Does anyone know of a
language where it is necessary to distinguish them? Or where anyone
presents any evidence on the matter?

--Leo Connolly connollymsuvx1.memst.edu

A colleague is trying to learn Cherokee from a textbook and tapes, and is
frustrated by lack of grammatical explanation. Can anyone suggest a Cherokee
grammar, in either English or Japanese, that she can use? Thanks.
Mark Hansell
Carleton College
mhansellcarleton.edu

Kenneth Holmqvist
Lund University,
Department of Cognitive Science

thank you very much!
Elissa Feit (feitcs.buffalo.edu)