LINGUIST List 5.1342

Mon 21 Nov 1994

Qs: Dutch/Norwegian, Sven Jakobson-address, Survey, Adjectivals

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1. Thomas B Ernst, Dutch/Norwegian quantification
2. meyers, Sven Jacobson's address
3. "Lori D. Repetti", survey
4. , query: pre-det adjectivals

I am trying to collect data on Dutch and/or Norwegian quantifier ambi-
guities (or nonambiguities), and would appreciate any references (or
data) that readers on the List can supply. In particular, I am looking
for information on:

 (1) active sentences with two quantified NP's (like the
 English SOMEONE SAW EVERYTHING)
 (2) passives with two quantified NP's (e.g. SOMEONE WAS
 SEEN BY EVERY DOCTOR)
 (3) subject quantifiers with respect to negation or modality
 (e.g. EVERYONE DOESN'T LIKE SQUID or SOMEONE MUST
 ATTEND THIS MEETING)

Tom Ernst
ternstbrahms.udel.edu

Does anyone have an email or regular mail address for
Sven Jacobson? I have already checked the linguist mailing
list, the LSA mailing list and the linguists nameserver
in Amsterdam.

Please respond directly to me rather than the list.

Thank you.

Adam Meyers (meyerscs.nyu.edu)

 State University of New York at Stony Brook
 Stony Brook, NY 11794-3359

 Lori D. Repetti
 French & Italian
 516 632-7440
 21-Nov-1994 06:01pm EST
 FROM: LREPETTI
 TO: Remote Addressee ( _linguisttamvm1.tamu.edu)

 Subject: survey

I was asked by the president of the Societa' di linguistica italiana (SLI) to
distribute of survey of the teaching of Italian linguistics in the United
States. If courses on Italian linguistics are taught at your university (in the
United States), I would be very grateful if you would let me know.

to help me decide whether one or two embryonic ideas are worth developing at
all, i would appreciate native-speaker intuitions on the following:

i. How proud a mother is she?
ii. How proud of a mother is she?
iii. How proud of her son a mother is she?
iv. She is a very proud of her son mother.
v. How proud of her son of a mother is she?

i asked about i and ii before, but new replies are welcome. i would especially
like to have (dis)confirmation that iii, whether or not it is itself fully ok,
is at least better, perhaps a lot better, than iv. if so, then my guess is that
most people will similarly agree that ii is (a lot) better than v. if anyone
can, please also rank ii and iii relative to each other.

please respond to me, but if there's interest i will summarize. thanks. frits