LINGUIST List 8.281

Wed Feb 26 1997

Qs: Kanakuru, Frequency, Unaccusativity

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1. Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Native speaker of Kanakuru/Dera (Chadic Language)
2. Nigel Smith, Letter Frequencies
3. Helge =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F8drup?=, Unaccusative phenomena in ergative languages

Can anyone help me in getting in contact with a native
speaker, or field-researcher, of the Chadic language
Kanakuru (also known as "Dera", and "Deru") ?

Kanakuru is spoken in Nigeria, in the Bornu and Adamawa provinces
(main cities: Shani, Shellen). It belongs to the Bole-Tangale
cluster of the Plateau-Sahel branch of the Chadic language family.

Thank you in advance,

Vieri Samek-Lodovici


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Vieri Samek-Lodovici
Sprachwissenschaft, Uni-Konstanz
Postfach 5560 D 176
D-78464 Konstanz
Germany

tel. univ: (49) (7531) 882963
fax univ: (49) (7531) 884115 / 883095
tel home: (49) (7531) 693545
email Vieri.Samek-Lodoviciuni-konstanz.de

I would be grateful if any member of the list point me in the direction
of statistics (in hard copy or electronic form) on letter-frequency in
any or all of the Indo-European languages using alphabetic scripts. I am
particularly interested in any work done on earlier stages of the
languages. All help will be gratefully acknowledged and a summary posted
to the list.

Nigel Smith
University of Wales Lampeter
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/mlang/

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I have the following question from a student who is visiting my department:
What has been written about unaccusative phenomena in ergative languages?
Please answer directly to her: marthacphling.dk (Martha Karrebaek)

Helge Lodrup

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University of Oslo
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