LINGUIST List 10.1540

Sat Oct 16 1999

Qs: Turkish Corpus,Language Affinity,Code Switching

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  • Bilge Say, Volunteers needed for Turkish corpus survey
  • Helen Silvester, language affinity
  • Sophie ALBY, code switching

    Message 1: Volunteers needed for Turkish corpus survey

     Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 18:09:31 +0300
    From: Bilge Say <bsayii.metu.edu.tr>
    Subject: Volunteers needed for Turkish corpus survey


    Dear all,

    We are in the process of compiling a written corpus of present day Turkish, part of which will be also syntactically and morphologically annotated.

    If you are working on Turkish, or planning to do so in near future we would appreciate if you could answer a short survey. Confirming to the linguist list's policy please email to me for a copy of the survey ( bsayeuclid.ii.metu.edu.tr )

    Thanks in advance,

    Bilge Say Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University Turkey

    Message 2: language affinity

     Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:47:28 +0200
    From: Helen Silvester <silvestrisc.upol.cz>
    Subject: language affinity


    Dear Friends I am looking for any information on work done on creating a mathematical, or otherwise, scale of measuring linguistic affinity e.g. Portugese/Spanish 0.85, Slovak/Czech 0.88. I admit that such a scale would have to take into account vocabulary, syntax, mutual intelligibilty etc. Any help or guidance greatly appreciated

    Nader Fekri

    Message 3: code switching

     Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:05:17 -0300
    From: Sophie ALBY <albycayenne.ird.fr>
    Subject: code switching


    I am presently doing some doctoral work on language contact french-kali'na (an amerindian language spoken in French Guiana - Carib family) and I'm looking for informations on the distinction between code-shifting / code-switching / code-mixing.

    And also trying to find the following papers :

    DORON E., 1981, On formal models of code-switching, Ms

    MOHAMED F., 1983, Arabic-English code-switching in the speech of a six-years-old child, Ms (Source : PRINCE & PINTZUK, 1984)

    NISHIMURA M., 1983, Intrasentential code-switching in Japanese/English, diss. In prep., University of Pennsylvania (Source : PRINCE & PINTZUK, 1984)

    Please reply to me on : albycayenne.ird.fr