LINGUIST List 10.1095

Fri Jul 16 1999

Qs: Ashkenazic, Finnish Linguist, "PRO"

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  • Antony Dubach Green, Ashkenazic
  • Peer Landa, Looking for a Finnish linguist . .
  • Hak-Sung Han, PRO

    Message 1: Ashkenazic

     Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:08:46 +0200
    From: Antony Dubach Green <greenzas.gwz-berlin.de>
    Subject: Ashkenazic


    Hello,

    Can anyone help me find out exactly how (presumably Ashkenazic) Hebrew would have been pronounced by Warsaw Jews at the time of the Holocaust? I sing in a choir that is performing a setting of the Sh'ma by Arnold Schoenberg; the transliteration indicates an Ashkenazic pronunciation, but I'd like to know exactly how the vowels are supposed to be pronounced.

    If you can help, send me an e-mail and I'll send you the transliteration I have.

    Thanks, Antony Green

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Antony Dubach Green greenzas.gwz-berlin.de Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Jaegerstr. 10/11 Tel +49 (0)30 20 192 574 10117 Berlin Deutschland Fax +49 (0)30 20 192 402 http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/adgreen/index.htm - --------------------------------------------------------------------

    Message 2: Looking for a Finnish linguist . .

     Date: Wed, 14 Jul 99 16:33:40 -0700
    From: Peer Landa <peerccrma.Stanford.EDU>
    Subject: Looking for a Finnish linguist . .


    I'd like to get in contact with a Finnish linguist, preferable someone who's familiar with the colloquial Finnish language of circa 1880-1900. I have a quick question regarding the use of blasphemy and swearwords of this time-period. Please mail me privately:

    Peer Landa peerccrma.stanford.edu

    Message 3: PRO

     Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:33:33 +0900
    From: Hak-Sung Han <hakhannms.kyunghee.ac.kr>
    Subject: PRO


    Do somebody know who is the originator of the notion "PRO"? Is it Chomsky or somebody else? And where? I'd appreciate if somebody can direct me to a reference, where the term PRO was first used.

    Hak-Sung Han Dept. of English Education Kyung Hee University Seoul 130-701, Korea

    E-mail: hakhannms.kyunghee.ac.kr