LINGUIST List 7.479

Thu Mar 28 1996

Qs: J.R. Firth's quotation, Hiberno-English, Wh-Movement

Editor for this issue: Ljuba Veselinova <lveselinemunix.emich.edu>

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1. Juan Manuel Sosa, Query: J.R. Firth's quotation
2. Marc Fryd, Hiberno-English
3. Frederick Newmeyer, Query: Wh-Movement

Dear linguists,

J.R. Firth apparently said (or wrote) that "part of the meaning of
being an American is to sound like one."

Does anybody out there know where this quotation came from? I heard
it in a recent conference, and the author told me she got it from
Anderson (?) 1985, p. 180. Unfortunatley, I haven't been able to
locate either the original source or the Anderson 1985 work that
quoted it. Can anybody help?

Cheers,

Juan M. Sosa
Simon Fraser University

Does anyone know where I might find computerised corpora of
(preferably spoken) Hiberno-English?


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Marc FRYD FORELL-AIT Universite de Poitiers
95, avenue du Recteur Pineau 86022 Poitiers France
E-mail: Marc.Fryduniv-poitiers.fr
Home Phone: (33) 49 43 79 66 Fax: (33) 49 43 59 79

Where can I find a recent summary of the explanations that have been put
forward for why verb-initial languages tend to have wh-movement and why
verb-final languages tend not to?

I'm also interested in the 'internal' typology of wh-movement: languages
that have it in relatives, but not in interrogatives, and vice-versa (and
explanations that have been put forward for this).

Thanks

Fritz Newmeyer
fjnu.washington.edu

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