LINGUIST List 7.723

Tue May 21 1996

Qs: Teach,Hyrdrocephalic,Software,Mokita,Lists,Verbs

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <dseelyemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. Rhys CS, Q: teaching/learning packages
2. Randy Allen Harris, Query: Hyrdrocephalic language patterns
3. JPKIRCHNERaol.com, Q: Dictionary software
4. Pete, mokita
5. "J.L. Sancho, INSTITUTO DE LEXICOGRAFIA", Lists
6. Lynne Cahill, Subcategorisation of Dutch and German verbs

We are looking for information about software packages for
teaching/learning theoretical linguistics (especially but not just
syntax). If you have any experience of any packages, or have developed
one, please send me the information and I will summarise to the list.

Thanks in advance,
Catrin Rhys

University of Ulster at Jordanstown
cs.rhysulst.ac.uk

A student of mine with hydrocephalus says that she has some peculiar
language traits, particularly linked to acquisition. Talking with
other people who have hydrocephalus she has discovered that many of
them experienced similar acquisition patterns. Has there been any
work in this area (and, if so, what does it say)?


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 Randy Allen Harris
 Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Professional Writing

 Department of English, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON CANADA N2L 3G1
 rahawatarts.uwaterloo.ca; 519 885-1211, x5362; FAX: 519 746-5788

Is there any Macintosh software to help create bilingual dictionaries,
whether print or electronic, from databases? If not Macintosh, does
something exist for DOS or Windows?

James Kirchner

The following request came over the U.C. Berkeley Ed School list --
can anyone help? Thanks -- Helena Worthen

<<: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:03:14 -0800
>To: scowanuclink2.Berkeley.EDU
>From: david_meyerncsu.edu (David Meyer)
>
> Can you tell me more about
>the word "mokita"? It comes from a Papua New Guinea word (one word from one
>of thousands of languages) and I think the rough translation is "things
>that we all know but choose not to speak about". Could you ask one of those
>famous linguists, experts at New Guinea languages, if this work does, in
>fact, actually exists and if my definition is correct?
>

>Thanks,
>
>David>>

I am a "just subscribed" subscriptor and I am looking for any other list
particularly concerned with Chomskyan linguistics (and related areas such
as (linguistic) logic, cognitive science (for linguistic purposes)...).
My concrete interests (to help you narrow your suggestions) are ellipsis,
anaphora resolution, strict/sloppy ambiguities and theoretical aspects
of linguistics (models, frameworks, their cognitive import...). Can
anyone give me a hint? Thanks.

Does anyone know of a source of (machine readable) detailed information about
subcategorisation frames for Dutch and German verbs? I am looking for more
than simply transitive/intransitive, i.e. number and at least syntactic nature
of arguments. Ideally I would like the sort of information that is given for
English in COMLEX, but pointers to anything along these lines would be
gratefully received.

 Lynne Cahill