LINGUIST List 9.759

Thu May 21 1998

Qs: Linguistic Programs, "Albeit",Slavic NPs

Editor for this issue: Julie Wilson <julielinguistlist.org>

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1. Bethany K. Dumas, Query re administration of graduate degrees in Applied Lx
2. Michal Lisecki, albeit - a conjunction, yet it is a clause
3. Larisa Zlatic, Slavic noun phrases

I am continuing to look at the administrative organization of graduate
degrees in Applied Linguistics at institutions that do not have
departments of linguistics. If you are a member of a program that offers
such a graduate degree other than through a Linguistic Department, please
write me privately <dumasutk.edu>. I plan to post a summary.

Thanks,
Bethany Dumas

Dear linguists,

One of the lecturers at my University (U. of Silesia, Poland) focused his
academic interest on the phenomenon of the conjunction/clause "albeit."
He investigates various occurances of this item as occuring throughout ages.

e.g. al [be] it, al be thow, albeit it be, albeit that, etc.
In this way he came across a use of "albeit" as a sort of separate standing
clause like in the example below.

e.g. Analysts are predicting the company will return to profit this year,
*albeit their pre-tax projections are* for a figure of only #500.000
(pounds).

Yet, even more strange occurence he came accross came from latest quality
papers where he found the following form occur for which he finds no
justification or explanation:

e.g. But the real reason Buckingham Palace has thrown its gilded gates open
(*albeit it* for a hefty #8 per head) is that the Prince of Wales has been
lobbying hard for such a move.)

e.g. Yet she had lived long enough, *albeit it* in her mother's womb.

I was wondering if any of you, as native speakers of English and qualified
linguists at the same time, finds any justification and explanation for the
use of *albeit it* form in the above example.
I am just an undergraduate, about to finish my MA thesis in June, but I got
interested with the topic enough in order to ask the question.
At the same time, I am almost sure that he himself would be willing to
discuss any aspects of the use of *albeit* as it was a point of his interest
about four years ago [8 ICEHL Edinburgh, 19-23 September 1994: _Albeit_ a
conjunction, yet it is a clause: a counterexample to undirectionality
hypothesis].
If any of you is interested I could pass down your email to him.


Thanks in advance.

tafn mike
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Michal Lisecki <maguracz.top.pl> or <mliseckikki.net.pl>
UIN [4324037] IRC [lisu] http://priv2.onet.pl/ka/mlisecki
'The limits of my language mean the limits of my world' L.W.

I am analyzing word order in the Slavic noun phrase and would like
interested volunteers, native speakers of any Slavic language, to contact
me directly in order to obtain a survey form. My e-mail address is:
lzlaticmail.utexas.edu

The survey consists of 21 examples of various word order sequences which
are, for convenience, written in English. The task of the voluntereers
would be to decide which of these sequences are unmarked and grammatical,
marked and grammatical, or fully unacceptable.

I'll post a summary of the survey to the list.

Thank you for your interest.

Larisa Zlatic
University of Texas/Austin
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~zlatic