LINGUIST List 8.1232

Wed Aug 27 1997

Qs: Israel, Mandarin, TG, Phonetics

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Klearman Leah, Internships in Israel
2. fcosw5, Q: incorporation in Mandarin?
3. Andreas Kathol, Subcategorization in Tranformational Grammar
4. Jerap1, phonetics software

I have recently moved to Israel and am studying at Tel Aviv University
towards a MA in Linguistics (but my bachelors is not in
linguistics). I am looking for information regarding possible (paid)
internships with companies working on projects which include a
linguistic aspect. If anyone knows of any internship possibilities, or
even knows which companies in Israel are working on linguistics
oriented projects, I would apretiate any information you can give me.

Thanks in advance,

Leah Klearman
klrmnzoot.tau.ac.il

Having recently arrived in Taiwan to take up a teaching position and,
as a result, started getting involved with Mandarin Chinese, i have
very recently noticed that in this language, compound verbs can be
`interrupted', if i may so put it, by locative phrases. Witness the
following exs.:

Ba yizi banjin fantingli lai
obj.marker chair move-come-in- dining room -come
`Bring the chairs into the dining room'

Ta paohui jya qule
he run-return- home -go-asp.marker
`He has run back home'

Ba zheiben shu nahui xuexiao qu
obj.marker this-class. book carry-return- school -go
`Take this book back to the school'

I'm wondering (in order not to reinvent the wheel) if anybody has
looked into the possibility of analyzing such constructions as
examples of incorporation? If not, can anybody offer me a good reason
why not? If there's enough interest i'll post a summary.

Best,
Steven
- 
Steven Schaufele, Ph.D.
Asst. Prof. of Linguistics
English Department
Soochow University
Waishuanghsi Campus
Taipei 11102
Taiwan, ROC
(886)(02)881-9471 ext. 6504
Fax: (886)(02)883-5158
fcosw5mbm1.scu.edu.tw

Dear colleagues,

I'm wondering if someone could give me some pointers to the latest
literature in transformational grammar (GB, P&P, Minimalism) that
deals with issues of subcategorization. In particular I would like to
get a sense of the latest thinking, including ways in which Minimalism
departs from previous assumptions. Among the questions that I would
ideally like to see addressed are the following:

- What kind of subcategorization relations have been assumed in the
recent literature, and for what kinds of phenomena? For instance, a
transitive verb must somehow encode the requirement of taking a DP
complement. But can a verb also take a PP complement according to the
identity of that PP's head (as in _rely_ + _on_)?
 
- How are subcategorization relations constrained? That is, what
syntactic (or semantic) properties are thought to be accessible (in
the limit) to the selecting head?
 
- If there are substantive formal constraints on subcategorization,
where do they come from? Is there anything in the architecture of the
theory from which such constraints would follow?
 
Thanks very much,
 
 --Andreas Kathol

I am interested in software containing phonetic symbols--can anyone
direct me?

Thanks, 

Karen Robinson