LINGUIST List 6.477

Thu 30 Mar 1995

Qs: Sanskrit, Grant programs, Irish slit-T, Prince Charles

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1. Prof. Roly Sussex, Request
2. Igor Shoshitaisvili, qs: grant programs
3. , Irish slit-T
4. , Prince Charles on English

One of the PhD students at the University of Queensland, David
Dargie, is researching authorship in Sanskrit documents in the
period 500-800AD.

Does anyone know of:

1. an OCR (hardware or software) for Devanagari
2. machine readable corpora from this period, especially
 for Sankara
3. concordance and quantitative data for Sanskrit

Many thanks,


Roly Sussex
Professor of Applied Language Studies and
Director Centre for Language Teaching and Research
University of Queensland
Queensland 4072
Australia

email: sussexlingua.cltr.uq.oz.au
phone: +61 7 365-6896 (work)
fax: +61 7 365-7077


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Dear Linguists,
I am planning an expedition to some minor endangered finno-ugric
language in the northern part of Russia. If anybody knows of any grant
or other financial support program which can help financing this
enterprise, please contact me.
Sincerely yours,
Igor Shoshitaishvili

I am interested in the variety of ways that authors have suggested to
transcribe the Irish slit-T (normallt described as a voiceless alveolar
slit/non-grooved fricative).

I would be grateful for any references to previous piublications employing
a transcription for this sound, or for any thoughts on ythe best way
of symbolizing it.
Martin J Ball
University of Ulster

If anyone has the full text of Prince Charles' remarks the other day to the
British Council about the future of the English language I would appreciate
receiving a copy.

Dennis Baron debaronuiuc.edu

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