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utep.edu>I am hoping someone on the list can help me with a reference. A colleague of mine gave me an article written in French by Gaston Gross entitled Syntaxe du determinant possessif. Unfortunately the copy was not dated nor could my colleague remember the publication it appeared in. If anyone is familiar with this article and could tell me when and where it was published I would appreciate it. Thank you. Nancy Mae Antrim Dept. of Languages and Linguistics University of Texas at El Paso nantrimMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ling.nthu.edu.tw>Dear Linguist, In SPE, the palatal glide [j] (or [y]) is specified as [-coronal] (p. 176), but many other linguists such as Ladefoged (A Course in Phonetics, 3rd ed,p. 44) and Kenstowicz (Phonology in Generative Grammar, p.31) consider it [+coronal]. My question is: since [j] corresponds to the vowel [i] in its place of articulation, should [i] be considered as [+coronal] as well if [j] is [+coronal]? Thanks. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%= H. Samuel Wang Department of Foreign Languages National Tsing Hua University Hsin-Chu 300 Taiwan email: onghiokMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
global2000.net>Hello -- I have a question on Bickerton's theory, specifically on: -1- his statements that creole grammar represents natural "default settings" (for natural-language grammar), that reveal themselves in the absence of other consistent over-riding grammatical inputs & -2- his statements (or implications) that creole grammar represents a phylogenetically earlier stage of language development, post-dating the very beginnings of language (which he sees as pidgin-like) & pre-dating later natural languages which usually do not have 100% creole grammar. If creole grammar evolves among all children exposed to pidgin (or pidgin-like Homo erectus (?) pre-language) as their native language ... and if creole grammar is a sort of "default setting" for human grammar that persists unless & until it is eventually over-ridden by a differently grammared set of inputs (i.e., another language with different grammar) ... Than how could languages with non-creole grammar (i.e., most of the world's languages) ever have developed out of languages with creole grammar in the first place? Specifically: -1- Bickerton says somewhere that a sentence like "I no see nobody" (for "I see nobody" or "I don't see anybody") is an example of creole grammar popping out in a child's English-language acquisition -- & that this is why children create & persistently use such sentences for many years, despite all the surrounding adult English-speakers' examples (and corrections) to the contrary. So ... -2- To Bickerton, a small child's sentence like "I no see nobody" reflects a grammar which would have been considered -- at some earlier stage of humans' evolution into "languaged" creatures -- NOT "creoles' grammar", NOT "baby-talk" for parents to try & "correct", NOT "broken English (or "broken -whatever- "), but ... just the way *everybody* talked -- perhaps 50,000 years ago -- in some lost creole-like precursor of all later languages (including all the NON-creole languages). If so ... -3- then where/how/why, pray tell, did all the non-creole natural languages get all their *non*-creole grammatical baggage?... since (at whatever time this happened), Bickerton's theory tells us that everybody grew up hearing only creole-like grammar -- i.e., grammar which was at NO point in conflict with any human-language "default-setting", because it was created by brains which were "languaging" on the basis of those default-settings with NO other grammatical input. In other words -- how and WHY (according to Bickerton's views) could/did an early creole-like language evolve into something as very NON-creole in its grammar as (say) PIE or Proto-Semitic? What would/could have been the mechanism that allowed (and/or encouraged) this? Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone Handwriting Repair 325 South Manning Boulevard Albany, NY 12208-1731 518-482-6763 kateMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue