LINGUIST List, October 1992

October 1992 Issues

3.735 FYI: NSF
1. Beatrice Santorini, nsf funding in the new world order
3.736 Confs: Computational Linguistics
1. Wietske Sijtsma, ITK Tilburg, Meeting in Netherlands: Computational Linguistics
3.737 Confs: Kentucky Foreign Language; Speech Communication
1. Greg Stump, Call for papers
2. AHARRIS - Alan Harris, Speech Communication Association
3.738 Qs: Spoonerisms, Drift, Like, Chinese
1. mark, Spoonerism
2. hans gilde, Re: 3.633 Linguistic Drift
3. , like
4. , Are you interested in a Chinese list?
3.739 Qs: Syntax and dysphasia; Indirect Discourse
1. Mary Tait, Syntactic Theory and Dysphasic Speech
2. Martin Wynne, Computational analysis of indirect discourse
3.740 Disc: Non-Sexist language
1. "Ellen F. Prince", Re: 3.734 Non-sexist Language
2. Johanna Rubba, dog
3.741 Disc: he Barber Paradox
1. Jacques Guy, the Barber Paradox as confusion between sign and referent
3.742 Jobs: Hungary, Japanese, Open Specialization
1. Gregory K. Iverson, Job in Hungary
2. , Japanese Linguistics
3. Ed Battistella, Linguistics: Specialization open
3.743 Qs: Translation software; addresses; German
1. "Ederveen D.", Software for helping translators
2. Mary Tait, E-Mail Addresses
3. , Query: German diminutive phonology
3.744 Qs: Natural language and databases; ASCII IPA
1. Chris McNeilly, Natural Language to SQL
2. Richard Sproat, Request for Info on Ascii IPA
3.745 All: David Abercrombie
1. , Re: 3.710 Obituary: David Abercrombie
3.746 Disc: Japanese Pronouns
1. Kim Jones, Japanese pronoun "boku"
2. John Lee, T
3. Kim Jones, Japanese pronoun "boku"
4. This space for rent, Re: 3.734 Baby-talk, Non-sexist Language
3.747 Misc: Phoneticians, New Chomsky Movie
1. Richard Ogden, Phoneticians' errors
2. Randy Allen Harris, fyi: New Chomsky movie
3.748 Qs: Sentani; the acquisition of nested dependencies
1. , Sentani
2. Ron Smyth, nested dependencies
3.749 Jobs: Syntax at Postdam
1. Gisbert Fanselow, Jobs in Potsdam
3.750 Disc: The Barber Paradox
1. , Barber Paradox
2. Tom Lai, Barber's Paradox
3. Stephen P Spackman, Re: 3.741 The Barber Paradox: Sign and Referent
3.751 Disc: Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
1. Avery Andrews, unification- vs. constraint- based grammar
3.752 Disc: Sexism in Language
1. Swann Philip, 3.740 Non-Sexist language
2. Stephen P Spackman, Re: 3.740 Non-Sexist language
3.753 Disc: Oaxaca Project Update
1. John E. Koontz, Oaxaca Project Update
3.754 FYI: New PhD in Linguistics at Stony Brook
1. Dan Finer, New PhD program in Linguistics
3.755 Disc: Japanese Pronouns
1. , RE: 3.746 Japanese Pronouns
2. Bob Kerns, Re: 3.746 Japanese Pronouns
3.756 Disc: Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
1. Rich Hilliard, 3.751 Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
2. Joe Stemberger, Re: 3.751 Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
3. Eric Schiller, Re: 3.751 Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
4. "Henry S. Thompson", Re: 3.751 Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
3.757 Calls: Software
1. ZZLSA@gallua.gallaudet.edu, Software Exhibit
3.758 Jobs: Speech Synthesis; Psycholinguistics lab technician
1. Richard Sproat, Job in Speech Synthesis
2. , Psycholinguistics lab technician
3.759 Disc: Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
1. , Unification theories et al.
2. John S. Coleman, 3.756 Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
3. John S. Coleman, 3.756 Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
4. Mark Johnson, Re: 3.756 Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
3.760 Calls: ICAES, SLA, Oceanic Lx, ICHL, Georgetown
1. Karen Dakin, Congress announcement -- call for papers
2. , SLA conference
3. Lea Brown, Oceanic Linguistics Confere
4. David Denison, 12th ICHL, preliminary announcement
5. Helen Karn, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1993
3.761 Sum: Prosodic Transcription Worksh
1. Patti Price, Core Prosody Transcription for English
3.762 Qs: Parsing, Spanish Corpora, Old Irish, German
1. Elissa Feit, Word Expert Parsing
2. , Query: Spanish frequency lists
3. Michael Broe, Query: Old Irish
4. , Query: German diminutive phonology
3.763 Misc: Call for Papers, Job Announcements
1. Vera Regan, call for papers - EUROSLA conference
2. , job announcement
3. Mark Hansell/ Mai Hansheng, Job
3.764 Disc: Cognitive Linguistics, Paradox, Movie
1. bert peeters, Cognitive linguistics
2. Jon Aske, the barber's paradox
3. , 3.750 The Barber Paradox
4. , 3.747 New Chomsky Movie
3.765 Disc: Sexism, Japanese Pronouns
1. , Re: 3.752 Sexism in Language
2. Leland Emerson McCleary, PC and humor
3. John S. Coleman, 3.755 Japanese Pronouns
4. , Re: 3.755 Japanese Pronouns
5. Hiromi Morikawa, Re: 3.755 Japanese Pronouns
6. Melody Sutton, Re: 3.755 Japanese Pronouns
3.766 Disc: Like, Phoneticians
1. Swann Philip, 3.738 Queries: Spoonerisms, Drift, Like, Chinese
2. , 3.747 Phoneticians
3. Vicki Fromkin, Re: 3.747 Phoneticians; New Chomsky Movie
3.767 Disc: Oaxaca, Language, Culture, Nationalism and Peace
1. "David M. W. Powers", Oaxaca, Language, Culture, Nationalism and Peace
3.768 Qs: Japanese Vowels, Sociolinguistics, Stoplists
1. Kemal Oflazer, looking for Mr. Gerjan van Schaaik
2. Henry Rogers, query: voiceless vowels
3. Jon Aske, Audio-vidual aids for sociolinguistics course
4. , Algonquin Syllabary
5. , "Stoplist" of English function words
3.769 Disc: Phoneticians I
1. John S. Coleman, 3.766 Phoneticians
2. Richard Ogden, phoneticians
3. Joe Stemberger, Re: 3.766 Like, Phoneticians
3.770 Disc: Phoneticians II
1. , Re: 3.766 Like, Phoneticians
2. John S. Coleman, 3.766 Like, Phoneticians
3. , 3.766 Phoneticians
4. "Larry G. Hutchinson", Re: 3.766 Like, Phoneticians
3.771 Disc: Language Preservation
1. , Oaxaca, Language, Culture, Nationalism and Peace
2. Richard Ogden, 'nationalism' and languages
3. , 0000
3.772 Jobs: Language Lab, Applied, Phonology
1. Robert D Hoberman, Job: Director of Language Lab and Learning Center
2. Peter Schreiber, Applied English Linguistics and TESOL
3. Marc Authier, Phonological Theory
3.773 Qs: Pejoratives; Access; Phonetic Lexicon; Adpositions
1. Pamela Munro, Slang and Pejoratives
2. Robert Englebretson, New Grad student seeks advice: Access for the Blind
3. Charles Schleicher, phonetic lexicon
4. Charles Schleicher, adpositions w/out adjuncts
3.774 Disc: Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
1. Hans Uszkoreit, Re: 3.756 Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
2. Avery Andrews, `unification-based' vs `principles & parameters-based' grammars
3. , Re: 3.759 Unification vs Constraint-Based Grammars
3.775 Sum: Sociolinguistics Videos
1. Jon Aske, Sociolinguistics videos: Summary
3.776 Disc: Postal's "Best Theory" and Unification
1. Randy Allen Harris, "The best theory"
2. Avery Andrews, Unification vs. Constraint-Based Grammars
3.777 Confs: Child Language; HILP 1
1. Peter Sells, 25th ANNUAL CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM
2. Marcel den Dikken, HILP! 1
3.778 FYI: Recording for the Blind Needs Linguists
1. Robert Englebretson, Recording for the Blind needs you!
3.779 Sum: Natural Language to SQL
1. Chris McNeilly, SUMMARY: Natural Language to SQL
3.780 Misc: New Publications, M Ryder
1. "Christiane Fellbaum", French Linguistics Journal
2. Thorsteinn G. Indridason, New Publication (Icelandic)
3. , Compounds and PDP
3.781 Jobs: General Linguistics; Phonetics/Phonology
1. Ellen Broselow, Phonetics/Phonology
2. Timothy Montler, Job at University of North Texas
3.782 Qs: Subjects; Ontology; Change
1. , Request for info: English subject inversion
2. anoop sarkar, unification-based grammars and ontology theory
3. , Language changing before our eyes
3.783 Disc: Phoneticians
1. John S. Coleman, 3.769 Phoneticians I
2. Richard Ogden, phoneticians
3. , RE: 3.770 Phoneticians II
4. , Phoneticians
3.784 Disc: Unification vs Constraints
1. steven schaufele c/o elaine schaufele, unification- vs. constraint-based grammars
2. anoop sarkar, Inheritance and Unification Grammars
3.785 Disc: The Preservation of Languages
1. "R.Hudson", Dying languages
2. stephen ryberg , promoting diversity
3.786 Sum: diachronic Chinese phonology
1. , Sum: diachronic Chinese phonology
3.787 Calls: Studia Linguistica; Romance
1. , Call for Papers
2. , LSRL XXIII
3.788 Disc: Japanese Pronouns
1. , Re: 3.765 Japanese Pronouns
2. , Re: 3.755 Japanese Pronouns
3.789 Calls: ACL in Europe
1. EACL 1993, EACL93: Second notification and call for participation
3.790 Confs: ACH; Spanish at GURT
1. , Please post 2nd call.
2. Helen Karn, Call for Abstracts: GURT 1993 Pre-Session on Spanish Linguistics
3.791 Qs: Video; PBB; Identification; Greek
1. Debbie Schmidt, he said, she said
2. , Query: What's PBB?
3. , identification/translation
4. , Greek completives
3.792 Qs: Phonetics; Text Encoding; Lexical Segmentation
1. Henry Kucera, Re: 3.769 Phoneticians I
2. , Information request.
3. Robert J Kuhns, Query: Lexical Segmentation
3.793 Qs: Lexicon, Polish, Dialects
1. Larry Horn, a technical question
2. , Query: Polish Phonology (Palatalized [x]).
3. Henry Kucera, Re: 3.782 Qs: Subjects; Ontology; Change
3.794 Confs: Unicode Workshop
1. , Unicode Implementors Workshop, Sulzbach (Taunus) Germany
3.795 Sum: German Diminutives
1. , German diminutive phonology
3.796 Sum: *dog* as sexist language
1. , Sum: *dog* as sexist language
3.797 Jobs: Chair in computational linguistics
1. , Chair in computational linguistics
3.798 Disc: Language Preservation
1. , Re: 3.785 The Preservation of Languages
2. , Language Preservation
3. "Bruce E. Nevin", Brother's keeper?
3.799 Confs: ILA, Language Variety, EACL93
1. Sheila, INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION
2. , Call for papers: LANGUAGE VARIETY IN THE SOUTH
3. EACL 1993, Errata: 'EACL93: Second notification and call'
3.800 Disc: Negatives
1. Jane Edwards, listlessness of negatives
3.802 Disc: Language Preservation
1. Mark Turnbull, natural language diversity
2. Rick Wojcik, Re: 3.798 Language Preservation
3. Leland Emerson McCleary, Threatened languages
3.803 Confs: LSRL, ACL-93
1. , LSRL XXIII
2. Don Walker, ACL-93 CALL FOR PAPERS
3. Don Walker, ACL-93 STUDENT SESSIONS -- CALL FOR PAPERS
3.804 Disc: Paradox, Negatives
1. Leland Emerson McCleary, Paradox
2. A. Rene' Schmauder, Negatives
3. David Denison, 3.800 Negatives
4. , Negatives
5. benji wald, Re: 3.793 Queries: Lexicon, Polish, Dialects
3.805 Jobs: Applied/Phonology, Hispanic
1. , job announcement
2. (, Job Announcement: University of California
3.806 Disc: Negatives
1. , negatives
2. John S. Coleman, 3.804 Negatives
3. , Ample Negatives
4. "Soren Harder, Depts. of Phil. & Ling.", Re: 3.804 Paradox, Negatives
5. , Re: 3.804 Paradox, Negatives
3.807 FYI: LSA Taskforce, Chicago Dissertations
1. M. Lynne Murphy, taskforce needs members
2. John Goldsmith, Chicago Dissertations
3.808 Qs: Songs and acquisition; Presupposition
1. alamir, songs and lang acqui
2. Uwe Hauck, Roles of Presuppositions ?
3.809 Calls: Neuropsychology, Georgetown Applied
1. , TENNET IV: Call for Papers
2. Catherine Doughty, Call for Papers - Applied L
3.810 Calls: SCIL-5, Children's lg ,Discourse analysis
1. Richard McKinnon, SCIL-5
2. , call for papers
3. , Call for papers: discourse analysis
3.811 Disc: Language Preservation
1. mark, 3.798 Language Preservation, Brother's Keeper?
2. Bill Bennett, Re: [3.802 Language Preservation]
3. "David M. W. Powers", Re: Language Preservation
3.812 Qs: Alienability, morphology, verb-inversion
1. , query: 3-way alienability contrasts
2. "NAME " William Marslen-Wilson "", Non-affixational derivational morphology in English
3. , Request for references: Whole-verb inversion
3.813 Qs: CHILDES database; Addresses for Norwood, Dogil
1. Joe Allen, Query: CHILDES Database
2. , Seeking Susan Norwood
3. Mary Tait, Grzegorz Dogil
3.814 Confs: Slavic Acquisition, SCIL, Germanic
1. Dan Slobin, Crosslinguistic Workshop on Slavic Acquisition
2. Richard McKinnon, SCIL-5
3. Rosina Lippi-Green, Germanic Linguistics Roundtable
3.815 Disc: The Study of Gender?
1. Vicki Fromkin, Re: 3.807 Announcements: LSA Taskforce; Chicago Dissertations
3.816 FYI: Mystery Citation, Diachronic Chinese, Gay
1. , responses to query about mystery citation
2. "Sam Wang, 3.786 Summary: diachronic Chinese phonology
3. Geoffrey Nunberg, caballeros y caballeras
3.817 Disc: Best Theory Fallacy and Unification
1. Avery Andrews, Best Theory Fallacy
3.818 Disc: Negatives
1. bert peeters, 3.806 Negatives - Je crains qu'il ne pleuve
2. "Warren A. Brewer ", I could care less, Henry.
3. Michael Kac, Re: 3.806 Negatives
4. , Re: 3.804 Paradox, Negatives
5. Larry Horn, Re: 3.806 Negatives
6. Michael Kac, Re: 3.804 Paradox, Negatives
7. Larry Horn, Reneging
3.819 Disc: Language Preservation
1. Joseph Tomei, Language presevation
2. Ivan A Derzhanski, 3.811 Language Preservation
3. Rick Wojcik, Re: 3.811 Language Preservation
4. , Re: 3.811 Language Preservation
3.820 Disc: Phonetician (report on the references)
1. , Phoneticians
3.821 Disc: Negatives
1. Henry Kucera, Could[n't] care less--summary
2. , 3.818 Negatives
3. steven schaufele c/o elaine schaufele, evanescent negatives
3.822 Qs: ASL and parameters; morphology; re-
1. Martti Arnold Nyman, Q: ASL and Parameter Setting
2. , Inflectional and derivational morphemes
3. Henry Churchyard, morphological Bushism...
3.823 Jobs: Syntax, German, Indonesian
1. Martha Ratliff, Wayne State: Syntax Job
2. bert peeters, Jobs at University of Tasmania, Hobart (Australia)
3.824 Qs: American English Corpora, Irish
1. rebecca wheeler, American English Corpera
2. "LLOYD HOLLIDAY, LA TROBE UNIV, EDUCATIO, Irish
3.825 Disc: Language Preservation
1. Patrick John Coppock, 3.819 Language Preservation
2. Stephen P Spackman, Re: 3.819 Language Preservation
3.826 Disc: Japanese, Objectionable words, Gender Studies
1. , RE 3.765 Japanese pronouns
2. BIASCA DEBRA HALPERIN, Re: 3.816 FYI: Mystery Citation, Diachronic Chinese, Gay
3. "Mira Ariel, Tel-Aviv University", Re: 3.815 The Study of Gender?
3.827 Confs: LACUS; Dictionary Society
1. Sheila, LACUS: Conference announcement/call for papers
2. Thomas L. Clark, Dictionary Society of North America - Call for Papers
3.828 FYI: CHILDES Database
1. Patrick John Coppock, 3.813 Queries: CHILDES database; Addresses for Nowood, Dogil
3.829 Disc: Ne Pleonastique
1. "Don W.", 'Ne' pleonastique
2. , negation
3.830 Disc: Pleonastic Ne
1. , Re: 3.829 Ne Pleonastique
2. "Bruce E. Nevin", making sense of pleonastic ne etc.
3. Bill Bennett, Ne in French
3.831 FYI: Susanne Corpus available
1. Geoffrey Sampson, susanne corpus
3.832 Confs: Workshop on Comparative Linguistics; Belgium
1. , Workshop on Comparative Linguistics
2. Jan Nuyts, Linguistic Society of Belgium
3.833 Disc: Objectionable Words?
1. mark, Re 3.826 Jew vs. Jewish person
2. "Ellen F. Prince", Re: 3.826 Japanese; Objectionable words; Gender Studies
3.834 Disc: Unification
1. steven schaufele c/o elaine schaufele, unification, inheritance, and cognitive theory
3.835 Disc: Language Preservation
1. Bill Bennett, Language survival
2. , Oaxaca
3. Caoimhin P. ODonnaile, Re: 3.824 Queries: American English Corpora, Irish
3.836 Disc: Ne Pleonastique and Polarity Items
1. , ne in French - a reference
2. "Ellen F. Prince", Re: 3.830 Pleonastic Ne
3. , Poets' Corner
3.837 Qs: SLART, Japanese, Objectionable Language
1. Victoria Codina Espurz, SLART
2. Gregory Ward, translation diplomacy
3. Jon Aske, Two Jews and two Basques
3.838 Disc: Place-Names and Articles
1. , The Bronx
3.839 Disc: Final Devoicing
1. John S. Coleman, 3.783 Phoneticians
3.840 Jobs: German, Speech Perception
1. bert peeters, 3.823 Jobs: German (erratum)
2. Ronnie Wilbur, Speech Perception
3.841 Qs: Afrikaans, Unification
1. Avery Andrews, Afrikaans query
2. Rich Hilliard, 3.834 Unification, Inheritance, and Cognitive Theory
3.842 Disc: Objectionable Words
1. Julie Coleman, RE: 3.833 Objectionable Words?
2. , "Jew" vs. "Jewish people"
3. Dennis Baron, jew(ish)
4. "David M. W. Powers", Re: 3.833 Objectionable Words?
5. Stanley Dubinsky, Re: 3.833 Objectionable Words?
6. Larry Horn, Re: 3.833 Objectionable Words?
7. Stavros Macrakis, "Jew"
8. benji wald, Re: 3.833 Objectionable Words?
3.843 Jobs: EFL in Germany, U of Mainz
1. Martin Haase, job English as foreign language
2. Thomas Mueller-Bardey, job announcement
3.844 FYI: Minority Recruitment, OUTIL Mailing List
1. BARBARA PARTEE, Minority Recruitment
2. Arnold Zwicky, OUTIL
3.845 Sum: ASCII IPA
1. Richard Sproat, Summary Posting on ASCII IPA
3.846 Disc: Ne Pleonastique
1. bert peeters, 3.830 Pleonastic Ne
2. "Ellen F. Prince", Re: 3.836 Negatives: Ne Pleonastique and Polarity Items
3. Laszlo Kalman, Re: 3.836 Negatives: Ne Pleonastique and Polarity Items
4. Knud Lambrecht, Re: 3.829 Ne Pleonastique
5. , pleonastic negation
6. benji wald, Re: 3.836 Negatives: Ne Pleonastique and Polarity Items
3.847 Disc: Place-Names and Articles
1. , Place-Names and Articles
2. Michael, group names
3.848 Jobs: Stanford, UT Arlington, Queensland
1. Tom Wasow, Stanford
2. Susan Herring, jobs: phonology and sociolinguistics/ESOL
3. , Linguistics Position at the University of Queensland
3.849 FYI: Committee on the Status of Women
1. sally mcconnell-ginet, FURTHER INFO ON COSWL STUDENT PAPER AWARD TASKFORCE
3.850 Confs: Semantics, Dialectology
1. , SALT III: Semantics and Liinguistic Theory
2. J. Arthurs, Methods 8
3.851 Qs: Intonation, Okinawan, French Orthography
1. Ellen Broselow, query
2. Debbie Schmidt, Okinawa dialect
3. , French Orthography Query
3.852 Qs: Speech Economy, Ventriloquism, Identification
1. Narahiko Inoue, Query: Hymes' "speech economy"
2. , VENTRILOQUISM!!
3. Jason Johnston, Query: identification of language
3.853 Disc: Probabilistic Reasoning in Linguistics
1. , Scientific American
3.854 Disc: Negation
1. David A. Johns, "So don't I"
2. Bernard Lang, negation
3. , Pleonastic negative in Hindi
4. Joel Goldfield, "Ne expressif or ne expl'etif"
3.855 Disc: Objectionable Words
1. ALICE FABER, RE: 3.842 Objectionable Words
2. "Ellen F. Prince", Re: 3.842 Objectionable Words
3. BIASCA DEBRA HALPERIN, Re: 3.842 Objectionable Words
4. Nakamura Akira, jew
5. "LLOYD HOLLIDAY, LA TROBE UNIV, EDUCATIO, Re: 3.847 Place-Names and Articles
6. Geoffrey Nunberg, re: objectionable words
7. Michael Kac, Re: 3.833 Objectionable Words?