LINGUIST List 4.830

Wed 13 Oct 1993

Qs: Rochemont, Idioms, Turkish reduplication, Spelling

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1. , address of address help!
2. Sam Glucksberg, Idioms and bilingualism
3. David Corina, Please post
4. , Morphology, British English, and spelling variation

Does anyone know the current e-mail address
of Prof.Michael Rochemont (Univ. BC)?
I am informed that this is his sabbatical year
and he is in Texas (Univ. Texas Austin?).

Hisatsugu Kitahara
Dept of Linguistics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 01 2138

kitaharahusc10.harvard.edu

I'm interested in references to research and theory concerning idiom use and co
mprehension by bilinguals, including idiom learning in second language learning
. I'll post a summary when ready. Sam Glucksberg

Would you kindly post the following message with your
next mailing.

I am interested in references to adjectival
reduplication in Turkish, in particular to analyses
of syllable intial reduplication (rather than whole
word) e.g.(siyah --> simsiyah). I am aware of
general decriptions of this phenomena as discussed
in Underhill 1976, but would appreciate any pointers
to more current analyses, especially
with discussion on the relative productivity of this
alternation or lack thereof.

Please send responses directly to me, I will make
a summary available for a later posting.

Thank you.

David Corina
Program in Neuroscience
University of Southern California
corinagizmo.usc.edu

The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) provides
both British and American spellings for a number of words. I
noticed that some words are only given with the "American"
spelling - coloration (in contrast to colourfast and colourful),
and honorary and honorific (in contrast to honourable). Do
"colouration", "honourary", or "honourific" occur in any of
the British corpora? Does anyone know why the spelling differences
would occur with some forms and not others?

Bob

krovetzcs.umass.edu