LINGUIST List 6.729

Wed 24 May 1995

Qs: K Buehler, Transcriptions, Relative clauses, Humour

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1. Barbara Abbott, The 'Buehler girls'?
2. Claudia Medina, transcriptions
3. ELIZABETH GILBOY RUBIO, Extraposed relative clauses
4. , Verbal humour

I'm forwarding the following query for somebody else who's on a history of
philosophy list. Please respond to him. Thanks!

) From: "ZENO G. SWIJTINK" (SWIJTINUCS.INDIANA.EDU>
) Subject: Early summer question on the Buehler girls
) To: Multiple recipients of list HOPOS-L (HOPOS-LUKCC.uky.edu>
)
) Who were the "Buehler girls" through whom the linguist Karl Buehler
) "kept a healthy contact with the logical empiricists" as Arne Naess
) writes in his contribution to the 1993 Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook?
) And what was so healthy here?

Hi!!
My name is Claudia Medina, and I am writing my MA thesis which is
about building a data base about handwritten notes, and run it with
a Markov Model.

I am looking for transcribed handwritten notes as well as
markup languages used for that kind of transcriptions. Do any of you
know about the availability of these type of information?

Thank you very much !

Claudia

Dear linguist readers:

I have a question. Does anyone know any or recent forthcoming work on
extraposed relative clauses, in particular with reference to Spanish.

Thanks in advance

Elizabeth Gilboy
Dept. General Psychology
University of Barcelona
email: egilboypsi.ub.es

Hello,

A student of mine wants to do a thesis on verbal humour from a
discourse/conversational analysis perspective, using both spontaneous
(English) data as well as film scripts (e.g. W. Allen's films).

She is not so much interested in the discourse genres of jokes or anecdotes
as in what it is that makes a particular utterance or turn in a
conversation witty, funny, etc. Admittedly, this is all very vague.
Therefore, any suggestions or pointers to relevant and recent literature
(e.g. on the semantics and pragmatics of verbal humour - other than V.
Raskin's 1985 monograph) would be greatly appreciated.

Alex Housen

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Alex Housen Germanic Languages Dept.
University of Brussels (VUB) Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel:+32-2-6292664; Fax:+32-2-6292480; Email:ahousenvnet3.vub.ac.be
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