LINGUIST List 4.406

Sat 29 May 1993

Qs: Winograd/Greenbaum, Author search, Software, Modifiers

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1. Henry Kucera, E-mail inquiry
2. SEMPER, Author Search
3. Deborah Milam Berkley, Re: Wanted: software for educational/recreational text manipulation
4. Price Caldwell, Query: ordering modifiers

 I am looking, rather urgently, for the e-mail addresses of Terry Winograd
and Sidney Greenbaum (London). Any help would be appreciated. Please send
e-mail to Henry_KuceraBrown.edu or to HENRYBROWNVM.bitnet

 Many thanks in advance. Henry Kucera

I am a silent subscriber to this list. I work at the University of Maryland
University COllege as an Instructional designer. We are preparing to develop
a course (200 level) on language and society. It will encompass some basic
linguistics as well as some sociolinguistics. If anyone is interested in
being the author or knows of someone who specializes in this area, please
respond to me privately.

Lauren Semper
University of Maryland University College
 Semperumuc.umd.edu

Thanks in advance.

I'm looking for computer software for analysis and synthesis of text on Mac
OS or MS DOS (or recompilable source). It should be affordable and simple
enough for a student or teacher (K-12 or college) to use. Ideally it will
produce an amusing or interesting result that will increase the user's
appreciation of language, communication, and/or the connection of language
to thought.

With me, this is a hobby pursuit (As a Linguist, I make a good industrial
Organic Chemist.) but it seems that such software would be useful in K-12
or later in teaching language principles and appreciation of language.
While English is the only language in which I have significant skill,
software specific to other languages is also welcome.

I already have several shareware and freeware 'tools' of this sort and will
be glad to share them with others. A few examples are:

BABBLE (Korenthal, NYC, Shareware, MS DOS) Analyzes input text for word
pairs and generates output text having about the same concentrations of the
same pairs. A sentence inventor.

TRAVESTY (freeware, MS DOS) analyzes input text for character string
combinations (of length 2-9 specified at input) and generates output having
about the same string frequencies. A 'word' inventor.

NAMEGRAM (Rubenking, shareware, MS DOS) Accepts input character string,
analyzes for 'contained' words (in it's 65,000 word dictionary), finds word
combinations which are anagrams of the input string.

DADAPOEM (freeware, Chachanashvili, MS DOS) Accepts parts of speech and
phrase/sentence templates and 'randomly' generates new phrases and
sentences

Karma Manager (shareware, Mac OS) An anagram generator.

I will collect and re-post informative replies.

Forrest Richey
farmedinah.atc.ucarb.com

I'm trying to remember who used the phrase, "our last large
authorized class party" some 20 or 30 years ago to illustrate the
problem of the order of modifiers in an NP. And can anyone tell
me the status of that problem now? Has anyone provided a
plausible explanation for the rules governing the order in which
such modifiers may come? Is anybody that you know of still
interested in it?

Please post to me off-list and I will summarize later if there are
responses. Thanks, Price Caldwell