LINGUIST List 6.320

Wed 01 Mar 1995

Qs: RTF/SGML/HTML, Concession, Preaspirated stops, Turkish

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1. "'Jean-Francois CARRASCO'", RTF/SGML/HTML translation
2. Julie Nicole, concession
3. , preaspirated stops
4. "Dennis.Preston", Turkish social stratification

Hi all,

this message is something like a bottle thrown to the netsea and bringing you a
calling for help : having only access to mail systems,I found very few things
about topics like the ones in the header in the maillist I've been reading till
now.
I am looking for information of all kind about the SGML and HTML standards as
well as the way to make plain text or even RTF turn into one of those above
mentioned. Is it possible, for example, to find free translators from the
educational world would they be MS Word macros, C or C++ Libraries or even
finite software...
I would like to know if someone in this list has heard about the possibilities
of indexing texts in one of the formats mentioned earlier...

Thanks to all of you who will spend some time in sending me information about
all this
Jean-Francois CARRASCO
CSTB
Sophia Antipolis France
CARRASCORATETA.SOP.CSTB.FR

We are attempting to define concession: its purpose, its characteristics and
how it differs from counterargumentaion. On this matter, are there sources
other than Ducrot, Perelman, Roulet and Aristotle's rhetoric?

Thank you
Julie Nicole
Universite Laval

A friend of mine has proposed an analysis of a language which uses
preaspirated stops. I'm familiar with postaspirated stops, but
preaspiration seems to be rather uncommon. Only one of several phonetics
texts I consulted mentions them, and I can't find any (other) examples of
phonological analyses using them at all. Clearly a possible alternative
analysis would be that they are in fact a sequence of "h" plus a stop
(although the "h" would have an extremely limited distribution).

Can anyone throw some light on this? Are preaspirated stops attested in
other languages?

Can anyone direct a student of mine to any study of social stratification in
Turkey? It need not be linguistic, and it can be in Turkish (or English or
French, or German, or .....).
Thanks
Dennis Preston
(22709mgrmsu.edu)