LINGUIST List 10.1517

Wed Oct 13 1999

Qs: Core Grammar Design,Greeting and Address

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  • Cristina Barbero, Core Grammar Design
  • Anna Fenyvesi, co-occurrence of greeting and address

    Message 1: Core Grammar Design

     Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:02:00 +0200
    From: Cristina Barbero <barberoirst.itc.it>
    Subject: Core Grammar Design


    Dear all,

    I'm looking for references to the problem of designing a core grammar, i.e. a grammar that covers central phenomena of a language and that is intended to be applicable to a wide range of applications.

    I was having a look at the HP Test Suite (Flickinger-etal:87), the EU projects TSNLP and DiET, the LinGO ERG grammar (Stanford), the XTAG English grammar (UPenn). Do you know of any other relevant contributions?

    I'll post a summary of the responses I'll receive.

    Best regards.

    Cristina Barbero

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    Message 2: co-occurrence of greeting and address

     Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:17:38 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Anna Fenyvesi <fenyvesiodin.cc.pdx.edu>
    Subject: co-occurrence of greeting and address


    Dear Linguists,

    I would greatly appreciate some information on what different languages do as far as the co-occurrence of greetings and address forms (formal vs. informal). For instance, in Russian _zdravstsuyte_ occurs only with formal _vy_ address, while _privet_ only with _ty_ address. In English, however, _good morning_, _hello_ and _hi_ can co-occur each with both first name and title+last name address.

    Could some people share with me what is the case on this front in languages they speak or work on? I'll summarize for the list if there is sufficient interest.

    Thanks!

    Anna Fenyvesi

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