Query Details
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a corpus of Spanish-English code-switching data
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| Author: | meg nonapplicable | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Morphology
Syntax |
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| Query: |
I am presently searching for a corpus of data on Spanish-English
code-switching for the purposes of investigating syntactic constraints on code-switching. I am hoping that perhaps someone either has a corpus of data that I may utilize for my research or may know of a corpus that I may search for myself. Any response would be greatly appreciated. A colleague not currently a list member is looking for any information (in English or French) on the phonetics of Kinyarwanda: either descriptive or instrumental. Please contact Nicole Mu''ller at mueller@cardiff.ac.uk With thanks Martin J Ball Professor of Phonetics and Linguistics University of Ulster I am looking into helping field linguists (people who have had some basic training in linguistics, but are for the most part not at a Ph.D. level) set up an appropriate system of morphosyntactic features for a particular language (usually a language which is relatively unstudied). By 'morphosyntactic features', I'm referring to the kind of features that are used in verbal agreement (subject and/or object person, etc.), tense/aspect, case marking, negation, etc. etc.; or parts of speech systems (+/-N and +/-V a la Chomsky and Jackendoff, for instance). In phonology, there has been considerable research on what a universal feature system might be (and even some agreement!). I am aware of very little such research in morphosyntax, aimed at a universal feature system, but maybe that's due to my ignorance. Of course, some things are not universal (extended gender systems, say), and others may or may not be (shape classifier systems). But some sorts of morphosyntactic features are are least arguably universal. I am aware, for instance, of arguments to the effect that person marking features should be expressed in terms of +/- SPEAKER and +/- HEARER (see e.g. Noyer's 1992 MIT thesis, which also deals with universal number features). There are also some results in the typological literature, but those tends to be--well, typologies. For instance, typological work by itself might lead you to a system in which PERSON had three values, 1 2 and 3 (and maybe 4). But without further theoretical work, you probably wouldn't come up with binary-valued SPEAKER/ HEARER features. So I'm looking for s.t. that's more theoretically informed than pure typologies. My thinking is that if one had such a universal morphosyntactic feature system, it might serve as a starting point for a field linguist's language-particular system. Even if there is not agreement (and I'm sure there isn't), some ideas about universal systems would save field linguists from a lot of dead ends. Do readers of this list know of such work on morphosyntactic feature systems? I will summarize any replies which come to me. Thank you! Mike Maxwell Mike_Maxwell@sil.org Summer Institute of Linguistics A frequent error in writing is to mix upper- and lower-case letters (large and small letters) within a single word, e.g. WoRd. Is there a term for this error? Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof., Department of Linguistics Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A. tel. 1-607-255-0712 fax 1-607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE) e-mail ewb2@cornell.edu |
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| LL Issue: | 9.1405 | |
| Date posted: | 09-Oct-1998 | |
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