LINGUIST List 5.1279

Sat 12 Nov 1994

Qs: Both, Top 10 Bibliographies, West African and Indian texts

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1. "R.Hudson", *both ... and
2. Pearl Bertrand, Top 10 Bibliographies
3. William Eggington, Searching for West African and Indian texts

I discovered in a class yesterday that most of my younger undergraduates
rejected BOTH as a correlative conjunction, as in (1), while allowing
EITHER ... OR without any complaints at all.

(1)a John both drinks wine and smokes cigars.
 b John drinks both wine and beer.

They were both clear and unanimous. Has anyone else found this? Is it a
change, or has BOTH ... AND always been the kind of thing you only learned
by reading lots of books (which our youngsters don't do)?


Dick Hudson
Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics,
University College London,
Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT
uclyrahucl.ac.uk

I am looking for the all-time-bar-none BEST bibliographies on the broad
and general topic of LINGUISTICS. Not narrowly defined by anything. If
you have a suggestion for me please respond and tell me where I can find
it, either in print or on the internet somewhere.

Thanks in advance!

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Dear Colleagues,

We are doing some research on World Englishes which will
compare the short story fiction rhetorical style of the
following groups:

 West African male writers
 West African female writers
 Indian (sub-continent) male writers
 Indian (sub-coninent) female writers

We would like to use short stories written within the last
ten years (1984-1994) and need help creating a database.

So, we are looking for the following.

Names and publication data for:

1) Female and male writers from India who write in
English

2) Female and male writers from West Africa who
write in English

as well as

3) Any information regarding contrastive rhetoric,
especially comparing the varieties listed above

Thank you for your help

 Bill Eggington
 Wendy Baker
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Dr. William Eggington
3164 JKHB, English Department
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84604
U.S.A. Ph: (801) 378-3483 Fax: (801) 378-4649
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