LINGUIST List 6.400

Mon 20 Mar 1995

Qs: European ling., Open/closed classes, Software for analysis

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1. Sonja Launspach, European linguistics
2. , open/closed word classes, etc.
3. Jane Simpson, QUERY: guide to software for linguistic analysis

 I would like help in finding out information on linguistics in Europe--
how the field is structured? what theoretical models are important? What
departments in universities have linguists ? etc. I'm not sure where to
go for this type of information--so pointers toward sources or personal
knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
 Sonja Launspach
 t720026univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu

Can anyone help with this question?
Many introductory (and some other) books on linguistics mention the open/
closed distinction for word classes and the lexical/grammatical meaning
distinction. None that I have seen, however, say anything about who invented
these distinctions, when, where, and why.
Does anyone have any information about the provenance of these distinctions?
Thanks.

Does anyone know of any wide-ranging guide to software for use in
linguistics, (covering, say, fieldwork, quantitative sociolinguistic
research, acoustic phonetics, managing electronic corpora, discourse
analysis, parsing...)? Such a guide (preferably electronic) would be
very useful as a reference for students.

I will summarise the results for the list.

Jane Simpson Phone +61 2-351-3655
Linguistics F12 Fax +61 2-552-1683
University of Sydney NSW 2006 Post 18 Stawell St, Turner ACT 2601
 AUSTRALIA