LINGUIST List, March 1994

March 1994 Issues

5.237 Qs: Czech, Determiner-Phrases, Plausibility, Relative clause
1. , Czech Translator
2. "James K. Tauber", Query: References on Determiner-Phrases
3. Philip Resnik - Sun Microsystems Labs BO, Children's argument plausibility judgements
4. Kersti Bo"rjars, Query:establishing relatives
5.238 Qs: Lexicography, Color terms, Identification, Pragmatics
1. James Ssemakula, software for lexicography
2. Melissa Bortz, Use of Colour Terms in African Languages
3. , Identify this language
4. Ron Fein, indefiniteness & quantification
5.239 FYI: Tennet 5, Linguistics at Minnesota, Correction
1. Whitaker Harry A., alert
2. Jeanette K Gundel-1, Linguistics at Minnesota
3. Leo Obrst, e-mail address correction
5.240 Qs: Imitation, Gender differences, Idiom, UPen corpus
1. , Imitation and impersonation
2. , Query: What makes a boy sound like a boy and not a girl...?
3. , Idiom question
4. Kate Joly, UPen corpus
5.241 Disc: Double modals
1. Alex Monaghan, Re: 5.232 Double modals
2. , double modals
5.242 Misc: Lateral fricatives, Ergative verbs, IPA policy
1. Jacques Guy, Re: 5.220 Sum: Lateral fricatives
2. bert peeters, Ergative verbs and Chomskyan grammar
3. , IPA policy
5.243 Jobs: French ling; Japanese
1. ALICE DAVISON, French linguistics
2. Greg Iverson, Japanese Lecturer Position
5.246 Confs: Women and Lang
1. , -0800
5.247 Qs: Medical, Gothic corpus, Fricative vowels, Pharyngeals
1. , Q: Medical dicts and text
2. Ljuba Veselinova, Question on Gothic Corpus
3. John Hajek, fricative vowels
4. wendy sandler, pharyngeals and voice
5.248 Confs: Conference in Berlin, Organization in Discourse
1. , Conference in Berlin
2. Brita Warvik, Conf: Organization in Discourse
5.249 Misc: French, Semitic meat/bread, Chimps, Contrastive repetition
1. Y. Shum, Translating French To English
2. , Query: Semitic meat/bread
3. BROADWELL GEORGE AARON, Can Chimps Talk?
4. Jan Krister Lindstrom, Contrastive repetition
5.250 Qs: Arabic/Persian fonts, Gramcord, Collective numerals
1. William Dowling, request for Arabic/Persian fonts
2. , Gramcord for Macintosh
3. TONY HALL, Collective Numerals/Quantifiers
5.252 Sum: Gender summary appendum, Negation summary appendum
1. , 1300
2. "Raf Salkie, University of Brighton, UK", Sum: More on negation in French and English
5.253 Disc: Double modals
1. "Dr. Barbara A. Fennell", Re: 5.241 Double modals
2. Larry Horn, Re: 5.241 Double modals
3. Natalie Maynor, Re: 5.241 Double modals
5.254 Calls: ESCOL 94
1. Stanley Dubinsky, Call for papers: ESCOL 94
5.255 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. Martin Haspelmath, mainstream-periphery in linguistics
5.256 Review: The Oxford Acoustic Phonetic Database on Compact Disk
1. Ian MacKay, Review of The Oxford Acoustic Phonetic Database on Compact Disk
5.257 Qs: Survey: Politeness on the Net
1. Susan Herring, Politeness on the net
5.258 Disc: Double Modals
1. Ecological Linguistics,Anderson,PRT, Re: 5.253 Double modals
2. Michael Picone, double modals
5.259 Sum: Divine Pronouns
1. Mari Olsen, Sum: Divine pronouns
5.260 Sum: Chinese Translation Software
1. Minglang Zhou, sum:translation software
5.261 Sum: Breath Intake and Utterance Duration
1. "charles, breath summary
5.262 Jobs: Chair and lectureship, computer analysis of language
1. E S Atwell, Chair & 2 Lectureships at Leeds University
5.264 FYI: New Program: TESOL at Cal State Hayward
1. Marilyn Silva, New M.A. prgram in TESOL at Cal State Hayward
5.265 Confs: Information Retrieval
1. , SIGIR'94 call for participation
5.266 Qs: Lakota, Early English-French, Aramaic, Spanish L2, Rumanian
1. Greg Dubs, Lakota
2. , Q: English-early French dictionaries?
3. JO RUBBA, participles
4. "R.Weinert", Spanish L2
5. Martin Haase, Qs: Rumanian spelling reform
5.267 FYI: Information on University of Arizona linguists
1. Mike Hammond, info on arizona linguists
5.268 Jobs: Institute for Communications Studies - University of Leeds
1. "Simeon J. Yates", Job Advertisements....
5.269 Qs: Wallon, Minangkabau, Immigrant workers, Korean-French/Eng
1. !!!!!!!, Wallon, Walloon in Belgium. (fwd)
2. David Gil, QUERY: MINANGKABAU
3. Gwyn Williams, Immigrant worker language
4. Yim S. S., Korean-French/English translation software
5.270 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. sowa, Re: 5.255 Mainstream Linguistics
2. Steven Schaufele, 'Mainstream' linguistics and jobs
5.271 Calls: KONVENS 94
1. Ernst Buchberger, 2nd CfP KONVENS 94
5.272 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. Steve Berman, 5.270 Mainstream Linguistics
2. Vicki Fromkin, Re: 5.270 Mainstream Linguistics
3. , Re: 5.270 Mainstream Linguistics
4. Bernhard Rohrbacher, Re: 5.270 Mainstream Linguistics
5.273 Sum: French language corpora
1. , Sum: French language corpora
5.274 Qs: Nary, Survey, Jakobson quotation, Morph causativization
1. Shana Walton, "nary a one" usage
2. , Grammar Survey
3. MARC PICARD, Jakobson quotation
4. , Query: morphological causativization
5.275 Qs: French parser, Rhyming dictionary, Bengali, Students
1. Dan Melamed, Does anyone know of a parser for French ?
2. Debra Burhans, rhyming dictionary
3. "Henk Wolf", Bengali, native speaker
4. David Silva, Q: Student Linguistics Associations
5.276 Confs: African Ling Conference, Summer School on Comp.Ling.
1. Alan Prince, African Linguistics Conference
2. Nicolas Nicolov, Summer School on Comp.Ling.
5.277 FYI: Correction, Hansard corpus, OSU Working papers
1. Jose Camacho, Correction in a previous submission ("New USC Linguistics
2. "Raf Salkie, University of Brighton, UK", More on French corpora
3. OSU Working Papers, Announcement
5.278 Misc: Double modals, Mainstream linguistics
1. "David A. Johns", Double modals
2. Paul Deane, Mainstream linguistics
5.279 Sum: Natural Language Processing/Data Mining
1. Y. Shum, Natural Language Processing,Data Mining
5.280 Sum: E-Type Pronouns
1. Paul Dekker, Subject: 5.37 Qs: E-Type Pronouns
5.281 Sum: Intro to Language Texts, Ro/umanian
1. David Silva, SUM: Intro to Language Texts
2. Martin Haase, SUM: Ro/umanian
5.282 Calls: Linguistic Representations of the Subject, New journal
1. "Dr. K.N. Simms", Conference
2. Russell Collingham, NEW JOURNAL - CALL FOR PAPERS
5.283 Jobs: Natural language postdoc, Lecturer, Foundation Chair
1. , natural language postdoc
2. Paul Mc Kevitt, natural language postdoc
3. Nick Reid, Foundation Chair of Linguistics
5.284 Qs: Spanish verbs, Japanese font, Strategies of deceiving
1. Aleksander Murzaku, Query: Spanish verbs?
2. "RANDY J. LAPOLLA", Japanese font
3. Ekaterina Lechtchiner, Strategies of deceiving from pragmatics' perspective
5.285 FYI: extIPA Symbols Chart, Discussion List for Logic Teachers
1. , extIPA Symbols Chart, VoQS Symbols Chart
2. , Internet Discussion List for Logic Teachers
5.286 Calls: JOURNAL OF NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING
1. Russell Collingham, NEW JOURNAL - CALL FOR PAPERS
5.287 Disc: Double modals
1. , double modals again
2. , Re: 5.278 Varia: Double modals, Mainstream linguistics
5.288 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. Andreas Kathol, Re: 5.272 Mainstream Linguistics
2. , 'MAINSTREAM' AS MEXICAN POLITICS?
5.289 FYI: Correction, WECOL Proceedings, Mosaic
1. David Silva, Correction on Intro to Language Texts
2. Vida Samiian, WECOL Proceedings
3. Margaret M. Fleck, Mosaic
5.290 Jobs: Professor, Asst. Professor, English linguist, Research
1. Linda Shockey, job announcement
2. LETTICIA GALINDO, for the listserv--announcement follows
3. "Thor Sigurd Nilsen", Job announcement: English linguist
4. Yorick Wilks, T
5.291 Disc: Double modals
1. Joyce Neu, Re: 5.287 Double modals
2. , Re: 5.278 Varia: Double modals, Mainstream linguistics
3. J.Lynch, Re: 5.287 Double modals
5.292 Qs: Spatial preps, Neural net, French KIMMO, Language shift
1. "Joachim Grabowski", spatial prepositions
2. Alex Monaghan, help - neural net hardware
3. Sara Elo, Looking for French Kimmo rules.
4. Charles Randriamasimanana, Language Shift
5.293 Qs: Canadian raising, Chimpanzees, Caribbean creole, EUROTRA
1. , Query: Some more questions about Canadian Raising
2. , Chimpanzees and Speech
3. David T Rothman, Caribbean English Creole and BVE
4. a mcelligott, EUROTRA Reference Manual
5.294 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. David Pesetsky, Re: 5.288 Mainstream Linguistics
2. , Mainstream LX and Politics...
5.295 Calls: Functionalism and formalism, TPhS
1. Edith A Moravcsik, functionalism and formalism - call for papers
2. "Max Wheeler", TPhS-call for papers
5.296 Qs: Bilabial fricative, Spatial preps, Jesperson, Reflexives
1. Kathleen Doty, Q: Bilabial fricative
2. Laurie Bauer, Spatial Prepositions
3. , Jespersen and clefts
4. "david c. gohre", Translation of Reflexives
5.297 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. "Karen S. Chung", Re: 5.294 Mainstream Linguistics
2. Benjamin Macias, Re: 5.294 Mainstream Linguistics
3. Paul Deane, 5.294 Mainstream Linguistics
5.298 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. , Re: 5.297 Mainstream Linguistics
2. David Pesetsky, Re: 5.297 Mainstream Linguistics
3. Ian MacKay, canadian discrimination
5.299 Jobs: Temporary Job Offer, Lecturer Grade A
1. , Temporary Job Offer
2. Yorick Wilks, T
5.300 Sum: Contrastive repetition
1. Jan Krister Lindstrom, Summary on contrastive repetition
5.301 Disc: Mosaic
1. Richard Wojcik, Re: Mosaic
2. Natalie Maynor, Re: Mosaic
3. Philip Resnik - Sun Microsystems Labs BO, Re: Mosaic
5.302 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. Steve Berman, 5.298 Mainstream Linguistics
2. John Nerbonne, Re: 5.298 Mainstream Linguistics Canada/US
3. Jon Aske, Repost re Mainstream Linguistics
5.303 Qs: Labials, Affricates, Metalinguistic awareness, Discourse
1. , labial weakening in Japanese
2. Paul Kenneth Roser, Query: Lateral Affricates
3. mark l. louden, Metalinguistic awareness
4. Jan Svennevig, discourse list
5.304 FYI: New email symposium, A.Word.A.Day
1. , New email symposium
2. Anu Garg, A.Word.A.Day
5.305 Confs: Speech acts, Afroasiatic Linguistics Conference
1. , speech acts
2. Robert D Hoberman, Afroasiatic Linguistics Conference
5.306 Confs: CLS30 Program
1. Chicago Linguistic Society, CLS30 Program
5.307 Sum: Immigrant worker language
1. Gwyn Williams, Immigrant worker language: Summary
5.308 Jobs: Japanese lecturer, Research assistants
1. YUKIE HORIBA, Japanese lectuere position
2. RENE MULDER,
3. Yorick Wilks, T
5.309 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. , Mainstream linguistics/academic protectionism
2. Robin Schafer, Mainstream Lx
3. Sam Wang, Mainstream linguistics
5.310 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. Vicki Fromkin, Re: 5.309 Mainstream Linguistics
2. "Richard L. Goerwitz", Re: 5.309 Mainstream Linguistics
3. Logical Language Group, Re: 5.309 Mainstream Linguistics
5.311 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. , Re: 5.309 Mainstream Linguistics
2. Steve Berman, 5.309 Mainstream Linguistics
3. Jacques Guy, Mainstream linguistics or: Turfitis
5.312 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. Megan Crowhurst, Canadian
2. , Mainstream linguistics
3. Anjum Saleemi, Re: 5.309 Mainstream Linguistics
5.313 Disc: Mosaic & World Wide Web
1. Lou Burnard, www/html/sgml
2. Don Harlow, Mosaic, World Wide Web, and Lynx
3. Stephen P Spackman, Mosaic/WWW/html: a mostly negative review [Re: 5.301 Mosaic]
5.314 Qs: Structure vs. garage, Employee classification, Wolfgang Behr
1. Alec Marantz, Query: Parking Structure vs. Parking Garage
2. , Q: How our employing institutions classify us
3. "RANDY J. LAPOLLA", Re: Wolfgang Behr
5.316 FYI: SCHOLAR Release CY
1. Joseph Raben, SCHOLAR Release CY
5.317 FYI: Updated UMass GLSA List, Journal of Irreproducible Results
1. Zvi Gilbert, Updated UMass GLSA Pub. List
2. Mark Dionne x5551, "AN OWED TO SPELL CHEQUER" -- Copyrighted material!
5.318 All: FAQ on references
1. lynne murphy, FAQ/references
5.319 Disc: Indo-Europeans in Ancient China?
1. Rudy Troike, Why doesn't anyone mention the Tocharians?
5.320 Qs: Stemming, Confusability, Pullet, German, 8-bit
1. Y. Shum, Stemming and Morphological Analysis
2. Henry Rogers, confusability
3. , Owed to a spell chequer and pullet surprises
4. Thomas Ruefner, The semantics of tense in German
5. Michael Everson, IPA encoding standards: Mac
5.321 Qs: English possessives; Alternative orders; Counterexamples
1. John Goldsmith, English possessives
2. Richard Hudson UCL, Statistics on alternative Word-orders
3. , Query: Counterexamples
5.322 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. Paul Deane, 5.294 Mainstream Linguistics
2. Bruce Nevin, 5.310 Mainstream Linguistics
3. David Prager Branner, Chinese, mainstream
4. , Mainstream linguistics
5.323 Jobs: Japanese, NLP
1. Abe, Hideko Nornes, Job Opening: Japanese Language Assistant
2. Erwin Klock, Summer student job in Princeton (3 months)
5.324 Calls: Athabascan; NLP in Spain
1. Bill Poser, 800
2. , SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING '94
5.325 Confs: Neurolinguistics & Cognitive Modeling Workshop
1. Stefan Werner, Neurolinguistics & Cognitive Modeling Workshop
5.326 Confs: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics
1. , Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics
5.327 Confs: North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
1. Audrey Li, North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
5.328 Sum: Japanese labial weakening
1. , Japanese labial weakening
5.329 Qs: Women's studies, Pronominals, Indexing/Frequency, Dialect
1. Mireia Trenchs, Women's studies
2. John Goldsmith, French vs English pronominalization
3. Y. Shum, Automatic Indexing/Frequency analysis
4. Heather Jo Anderson, 'There's alot'
5.330 FYI: ASSOCIATION FOR LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
1. Edith A Moravcsik, new society
5.331 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. Esa Itkonen, Mainstream Linguistics
2. , mainstream linguistics
3. , Re: 5.322 Mainstream Linguistics
5.332 Calls: Tilburg Conference on Rightward Movement
1. , +0100
5.333 Calls: Dutch bilingual dictionary projects
1. "Carmen D. Djaoedji", Call for tenders: Dutch bilingual dictionary projects
5.334 Confs: Summer school in logic, language and information
1. Hanne E. Thomsen, ESSLLI '94 - Summer School in Logic, Language and Informationm
5.335 Jobs: Studentships in speech and language processing
1. L Kelly, M.Sc in Speech and Language Processing at Edinburgh
5.336 Disc: Metalinguistic awareness?
1. Richard Hudson UCL, Metalinguistic awareness
5.337 Jobs: Semantics, psycholinguistics
1. , Semantics at SUNY Buffalo
2. Ann Cooreman, professorship
5.338 FYI: Accessing libraries; Repetition-data in Malay
1. MARC PICARD, Re: 5.318 FAQ on references
2. Linguistic Group, Contrastive repetition
5.339 Disc: Double Modals
1. "DavisJ-SL", Double modals
2. mmackenz, Re: 5.253 Double modals
3. James M Scobbie, Re: 5.287 Double modals
5.340 Disc: Locatives from temporals
1. "Max Wheeler", Locatives from temporals
5.341 Confs: Natural language processing in testing
1. Jill C Burstein, -0500
5.342 Sum: Turkish
1. Pierre Pica, Sum: Turkish
5.343 Confs: Langues et Grammaires - I, Symposium in Odense
1. , Conference: "Langues et Grammaires - I"
2. Hartmut Haberland, Symposium in Odense
5.344 Qs: Positional tendencies, AAVE, Corpora
1. Elyse Abraham, Positional tendencies for syntactic constituents
2. David T Rothman, AAVE & Carib. Eng. Creole
3. Toni Badia, corpora on Law and on Economics
5.345 Qs: Database, Eat/devour, Lexically based parsing, Chaotic
1. Armin Bassarak, Question on data base software
2. Philip Resnik - Sun Microsystems Labs BO, Eat/devour and similar examples
3. Ted Pedersen, Query: Lexically Based Parsing
4. , for posting
5.346 Qs: Dialectology, Morph universals, Ural-Altaic, Programs
1. , Dialectology & Literacy
2. "Christopher J. Hall", Morphological Universals
3. Frederick Pagniello, Ural-Altaic and Basque
4. Richard Tuttle, Graduate programmes ...
5.347 Sum: Japanese NP or PP
1. , sum: Japanese np or pp
5.348 Confs: SALT 4 Program
1. Conference on Semantics and Linguistic T, SALT 4 Program
5.349 Calls: Contemporary Chinese Linguistics
1. Tao Hong Yin, Call for papers: Contemporary Chinese Linguistics
5.350 Disc: Locatives from temporals
1. benji wald, Re: 5.340 Locatives from temporals
2. , re: 5.340 Locatives from temporals
5.351 Books: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology
1. @I, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology
5.352 Books: Syntax, Semantics
1. @I, Syntax, Semantics
5.353 Books: Ling Theory, Formal and Computational Ling
1. @I, Ling Theory, Formal and Computational Ling
5.361 Confs: Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America conference
1. FLSM 5, Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America conference: program &
5.362 Sum: Canadian Raising: Partial Summary and New Query
1. , Canadian Raising: Partial Summary and New Query
5.363 Calls: Workshop on `Object Positions in Benue-Kwa', AMTA 94
1. RENE MULDER, call for papers
2. Joseph Pentheroudakis, T
5.364 Qs: Concordance, Weak crossover, Czech font, Russian prefixes
1. , public domain concordance programs
2. , Weak Crossover
3. Dirk Noel, Czech font for the Mac
4. Mike Hammond, Russian prefixes
5.365 Confs: Central European Summer School in Generative Syntax
1. , Summer School Announcement
5.366 TOC: Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Volume 16-1, BIHP
1. "RANDY J. LAPOLLA", TOC:LTBA
2. "RANDY J. LAPOLLA", TOC: BIHP issues on linguistics
5.367 FYI: In memoriam Zbigniew Golab
1. , In memoriam Zbigniew Golab
5.368 FYI: TESL-EJ: An Electronic Journal
1. Margaret E Sokolik, TESL-EJ: An Electronic Journal
5.369 Misc: Mosaic; Russian database software
1. Richard Wojcik, Re: Mosaic/WWW/html: a mostly negative review [Re: 5.301 Mosaic]
2. , RE: 5.345 Qs: Database
5.371 Jobs: Temporary Job, AI programmer/Computational, Research asst.
1. Inge DeBleecker, Temporary Job Offers
2. Paul Deane, Job
3. Karin Stromswold, research assistant position
5.372 Calls: ESSLLI workshop
1. Erhard Hinrichs, Call for Presentations -- ESSLLI workshop
5.373 Confs: Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America conference
1. FLSM 5, Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America conference: program &
5.374 Confs: DTI CSCW SIG ONE DAY CONFERENCE
1. Pemberton Lyn, CFP: Linguistics and CSCW - London
5.375 Confs: Info on ORALITE Conference
1. Greg Lessard, Info on ORALITE Conference
5.376 Confs: Speech and Handwriting Workshop, LANGUES ET GRAMMAIRE I
1. Dr TG Rose, Speech and Handwriting Workshop Programme
2. , conference announcement and call for papers
5.377 FYI: Linguistics and a Supreme Court case, NPR E-mail addresses
1. Jeffrey Kaplan, Linguistics and a Supreme Court case
2. Rudy Troike, NPR E-mail addresses to protest bias against Southern speech
5.378 Qs: "go" Past, Swahili, Arabic script, Ainu and Ryuukyuu
1. Manuel Perez Saldanya, "go" Past
2. Lindsay Endell, Swahili
3. "Cath Pease", Arabic script
4. ABE Hideko Nornes, the Ainu and Ryuukyuu languages
5.379 Qs: Hosers, Fluency, Morph analyzers, Intro English syntax book
1. Twila Tardif, "hosers"
2. "M. Koponen", Query: Fluency
3. Paul Deane, Query: Morphological Analyzers
4. Ali Aghbar, Inquiry: Introductory English Syntax Book
5.533 Books: Ling Theory, Formal and Computational Ling
1. @I, Ling Theory, Formal and Computational Ling
5.534 Books: Romance Ling, Computational (translation)
1. @I, Romance Ling, Computational (translation)
5.535 Books: Acquisition, Dialectology, Genre Analysis
1. @I, Acquisition, Dialectology, Genre Analysis
5.537 Disc: Mainstream Linguistics
1. Randy Allen Harris, Mainstream Linguistics (Comment on Nevin post)
2. Steven Schaufele, GPSG and 'mainstream' linguistics
3. Vicki Fromkin, Re: 5.331 Mainstream Linguistics
4. Margaret Winters, mainstream linguistics
5. Randy Allen Harris, Mainstream Linguistics (response to Salkie's post)
6. David Gil, MAINSTREAM
5.538 Sum: Parking
1. Alec Marantz, Parking Summary
5.539 Qs: General education courses; Metonomy & discourse
1. Lynn Gordon, Query about "General Education" courses
2. Adam Karpinski, Metonymy and Discourse
5.540 Qs: Interrogatives in French; Spanish; Question particles
1. David Pesetsky, Query: Subject embedded interrogatives in French
2. "Thor Sigurd Nilsen", Q: Mexican Spanish
3. , Question particles