LINGUIST List 4.389

Mon 24 May 1993

Qs: Hawaiian, Number, Lesperance

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1. , Hawaiian
2. Swann Philip, Number
3. Varol Akman, Yves Lesperance

Does anyone know the meaning of the word "Maoli". A colleague of mine
is working on a paper and found this word on page 25 of the book
TRAVELS by W.S. Merwin (1992--Knopf). The title of the poem is
"Search Party".

Thanks in advance.

How does +/- plural marking interact with the mass/count
distinction for nouns?

Philip Swann
University of Geneva

I'm trying to contact Professor Yves Lesperance who is the author of
the following University of Toronto technical reports:

CSRI-181 TOWARD A COMPUTATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF SITUATION SEMANTICS
 Yves Lesperance
 [April 1986]

CSRI-248 A FORMAL THEORY OF INDEXICAL KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION
 Yves Lesperance
 [Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of CS, February 1991]

I would be grateful if someone could kindly inform me of the availability
of these reports (or else the whereabouts of Prof. Lesperance).

Many thanks and best regards,

Varol Akman, Assoc. Prof.
Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science
Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara 06533, Turkey
Phone: [90] (4) 266-4133 Fax: [90] (4) 266-4126 or -4127
E-mail: akmantrbilun.bitnet
 akmantroy.cs.bilkent.edu.tr
 akmanbcc.bilkent.edu.tr