LINGUIST List 5.212

Wed 23 Feb 1994

Qs: Borrowings, Romance, Corpus tager, Phonology

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1. Yusuf Pisan, Query: What words are borrowed easily and why
2. , Re: 5.172 Sum-Roman calves
3. Alison Moore, corpus tagger
4. "Walter G. Rolandi", acquisition of phonology

I am looking for some references about what kind of words are borrowed
in to the language (adjectives, nouns, verbs, ...) and references
about the claims people have made about word borrowing.
A particular claim I know is that nouns will be borrowed a lot more
than verbs since nouns are more concrete and isolated whereas verbs
are woven into the structure of the language.
I am especially interested in articles dealing with Turkish and
English, but articles describing how words are borrowed in a
specific language would also be interesting.

Have I made myself clear?

Thanks in advance for any responses

Yusuf Pisan
y-pisannwu.edu

Message 2: Re: 5.172 Sum-Roman calves

I'm not a linguist and I know very little about Latin but I teach Spanish and
I'm wondering (Re: "From: CONNOLLYMSUVX1.MEMST.EDU") if "_i_ as the imperative
of _ire_" didn't survive "in Romance" as _Id_, the second person plural
imperative in peninsular Spanish. If this is just folk etymology, please flame
me straight.

Gracias,

Bob

An appeal from the Macquarie Dictionary:

Does anyone know of a public domain corpus tagger that could be downloaded?

We would need a source code that can be compiled as a C program for the
Macintosh version of Unix (AUX 3.0).

Thank you!

Alison Moore

hi,

i'm interested in the acquisition of phonology. can anyone inform me
as to what theories currently reign? what basic sources should be
read? where the most important work is now going on?

thanks.

Walter G. Rolandi
INTERNET: ROLANDIhsscls.hssc.scarolina.edu