LINGUIST List 4.65

Wed 03 Feb 1993

Qs: Wechsler, Schnass, Spanish, Idioms

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1. Markantonatou S, Stephen Wechsler's thesis
2. "Le Flem C. D.", Query: Was bedeutet "SCHNAB"?
3. Harry Howard, morphological (phonological) anal. of Spanish
4. Rich Hilliard, Same Old Same Old

I am not quite sure that this is the correct way to put my question
on the list. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Could anybody point out a QUICK way of getting Stephen Wechsler's PhD?
The reference is:

Wechsler, Stephen, 1991, Argument Structure and Linking, Doctoral
dissertation, Stanford University

Thanks,

Stella Markantonatou

email: marksessex.ac.uk

 Does anybody know the meaning(s) of the German (Yiddish?) adjective "schnaB"
which was apparently largely used in Vienna around 1900, but seems to have
vanished since? Examples and any pertinent information about the word would
be appreciated. Please send your message to my personal address.
 Thanks for your help! DCL

For some work in the morphological analysis of Spanish text, I am wondering
if anyone knows of a two-level (Koskenniemi-style) analysis of Spanish.
Any citiation, reports, etc. would be appreciated.

Harry Howard
sr0da7fvm.tcs.tulane.edu (note the zero)

A friend sent me this:

 A linguistic query: Have you heard the expression "Same old. Same
 old." as in an answer to "What's you been up to?" I've heard it in
 the media a bunch lately. Is this an abbreviation of some other idiom
 as in "Same old X, same old Y?"

I haven't encountered this construction (I guess I'm just not watching
enough tv!), so I pass it along to LINGUIST. Nor am I aware of idioms
of the form he cites ("Same old X, same old Y"); actually, another
analysis occurred to me -- but I'll hold off on that in the hope that
someone out there in network land has some REAL data on this.

 -- Rich Hilliard