LINGUIST List 5.481

Tue 26 Apr 1994

Qs: Mac ReNumber, Summer school, German lexis, Metaphor & symbol

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1. Mari Olsen, Mac ReNumber
2. Dorthe Bleses, q
3. , German lexis query
4. Adam Karpinski, metaphor&symbol

At the LSA in Chicago in 1990 (before I had a Mac large enough to run
it) there was a product on display called ReNumber. It renumbered
examples in a paper, as well as references to them in the text. A
couple months ago I wrote to the address given at the LSA, but received no
response. Is the software (or something comparable/better) still
available?

Thanks.

Mari Broman Olsen
Northwestern University
Department of Linguistics
2016 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

molsenastrid.ling.nwu.edu
molsenbabel.ling.nwu.edu

I would like to know if anyone is aware of a sommercourse in
psycholingustic which I (as a ph.d.student) can attend to this summer (Im
particular interested in speech errors).

Dorthe Bleses
Language and Communication
Odense Universisty
Denmark

Dear List,

At the tip of Africa material on German dialects is a bit thin on the
ground, and what I want to know may require someone who is a dialect
speaker or dialectologists.

Does anybody know of a German word (probably Bavarian) Krell meaning
'bead'? I was once told by a Bavarian that this was the meaning of
the word, and that it had a plural in -en. The only place I have come
across it is as a surname: Duerer painted a picture of someone called
Oswald Krell, and it is my wife's maiden name. I suspect it is in no
way related to Afrikaans kraal 'bead' which is presumably a French
loan from 'coral', nor to standard German Krelle. Any help would be
appreciated.

Greetings!
A friend of mine, who isn't in e-mail, is interested in topics on the border
of metaphor and symbol, especially the issue of conventionality. Any sugges-
tions, comments, and bibliography will be appreciated. Please, e-mail to me,
or write to: MARIA LIBURA, ul. Akademicka 3/47, 02-038 WARSZAWA, POLAND.
Thanks in advance. Adam