LINGUIST List 5.1114

Thu 13 Oct 1994

Qs: Position seeking, Referring to e-mail, Lexicon, "linguist"

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1. E. Wayles Browne, Sarajevo Slavist seeks temporary position
2. Wissing, DP, Method of ref. to LING-contrib
3. , Quest: Lexical access in Discourse process.
4. Enid Wai-Ching Mok, RE:Linguists, linguists everywhere

[Moderators' note: As most of you know, we usually don't post
job requests, but we consider this to be an exception.]

Prof. dr Milan Sipka of the University of Sarajevo is seeking a
temporary full-time or part-time research or teaching position in
the U.S. or Canada. He could teach the Serbo-Croatian language, its
structure, history or sociolinguistics. He wishes to spend some time
in North America in order to gather information for the North
American segment of his project Encyclopedic Lexicon of South
Slavonic Linguistic Studies. This reference work promises to have
even greater value for the development of the South Slavic field now
than when it was planned in the 1980s. Prof. Sipka's curriculum vitae
and bibliography, as well as details about the Encyclopedic Lexicon,
are available from him c/o Gerhard Neweklowsky at the address
gerhard.neweklowskyuni-klu.ac.at until the end of November 1994.

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Morrill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
tel. 607-255-0712, 607-273-3009
e-mail ewb2cornell.edu (earlier: jn5jcornella.bitnet //
jn5jcornella.cit.cornell.edu)

Before posing my problem, let me first express my feeling about the most
exciting possibilities that LINGUIST has opened to me, after being in the
cold for so long in South Africa. It is just unbelievably stimulating to
get reactions from all over the world within days.

My problem as a new user: How do one refer to such reactions in a
scientific publication? Merely: "personal communication"? Or something
more "official", such as (in the text): "The general idea is that the
human vocal tract has inherent limitations (such as the relative
difficulty of heterogeous voicing specifications within a consonant
cluster), and that ..." (Nathan, LINGUIST E-MAIL, Oct. 10, 1994) Should
one possibly refer to the number as well? And what about the list of
references?
Thanks very much to whose persons who have, up till now, reacted:
Laurie Bauer
Kurt Blaylock
Don Churma
Alex Eulenberg
Anna Fenyvesi
George Fowler
Philip Hamilton
Thomas Klein
Geoffrey Nathan
Carsten Peust
Giorgio Perissinotto
Marc Picard
Alexis Ramer
Charles Scott
Hadass Sheffer

I will react to each of them individually a.s.a.p., and will post the
findings to LINGUIST, as requested be some of you.

SOME GENERAL SUGGESTIONS / OBSERVATIONS:

* Please mention your discipline, affiliation and country when
reacting. Particularly in the present case: only 5 of you have done it.

In a light vein:
* It would be a very interesting venture to study the personality traits
of e-mail list users such as those of LINGUIST: I would guess that they
are generally speaking constructive thinkers, and more in particular:
problem solving orienated, open-minded, helpful (obviously), curious,
etc. (and, perhaps, on the negative side, attention-craving!!) It might
be that such persons are more introvertive - but this, especially, is a
wild guess, I am definitely no psychologist.

Daan Wissing
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Potchefstroom
Rep. of South Africa
atldpwpuknet.puk.ac.za

I want any favor such as giving an idea about lexical item access,
retrival, the relation of "FRAME" and key-word set(lexical entry) of a
certain textual part.

I have a belief that there must be a mirco-analysis on the relation
between lexicon set and the construction of FRAME OR THEMATIC
CONFIGURATION happening in every course of discourse understanding.

To my sorrow, I have few papers dealing with this problem concretely in
view of linguistics. So please give me some of your thought or if
possible, send me some of papers of yours or others.

I have been enjoying the discussion of the term "linguist" over the past
few weeks and wonder if similar ambiguity and multiple usage of the term
used to refer to professionals who teach linguistics,and/or do research
in language(s) occur in other languages as well. I am interested in
collecting information from those who know what terms
are used in the languages they are familiar with and if there are any
discrepancies between the popular and technical usages of those terms.
Who knows. Maybe we can learn something from others.
Anyone who cares to contribute to this cross-linguistic database is
welcome to write to:
 eniduhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.edu
I will report to the list after receiving a fair amount of responses.

Enid Mok
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Hawaii
1890 East West Rd.
Moore 569
Hon.HI 96822