LINGUIST List 4.53

Mon 01 Feb 1993

Qs: YIVO, Kinakeme, Udell

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1. "H. J. Dingeldein", YIVO e-mail/fax address
2. Katherine Elizabeth Krohn, "kinakeme"
3. David.Bergdahl., Udell

Does anyone have the current e-mail address or fax number of YIVO (yidisher
visenshaftliher institut) in New York?
Please reply directly to me as soon as possible. Thank you for assistance.

Dr. Heinrich J. Dingeldein
University of Marburg
(dingeldedmrhrz11.hrz.uni-marburg.de

 A reasonably careful hand search of state-of-the-art linguistics dictionaries
and encyclopaediae has turned up no definition of "kinakeme," not to be
confused with "kineme." Working from the possible Greek roots produces no
meaningful candidates. I _have_ located one citation containing the term
(Plotkin, V. Y. "The Kinakeme as the Ultimate Unit of Language." _Kwartalnik
 Neofilologiczny_ 25 (1978): 275-88.), and am waiting as patiently as may be
for our Inter-Library Loan wizards to find a copy. Can anyone supply either
a definition of this elusive term or a citation to a more accessible journal?

--Katie Krohn
 Texas A & M University
 kkrohntamuts.tamu.edu

Query: anyone on the list know of a more recent adress than Marco Is FL
for retired dialectology prof Jerry Udell? If so please contact me at
the address on the header or BergdahlOUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Thanks
David Bergdahl Ohio University/Athens "Gateway to West Virginia"

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