LINGUIST List 10.722

Tue May 11 1999

Qs: Examinations, Readability, Info, Double modal

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Directory

  • Geoffrey S. Nathan, MA Comprehensive Examinations
  • diana pulido, Readability Formula for Spanish
  • Jeff ALLEN, John Chandioux Experts-Conseils
  • jlc115, Double modal constructions

    Message 1: MA Comprehensive Examinations

     Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 14:16:59 -0500
    From: Geoffrey S. Nathan <geoffnsiu.edu>
    Subject: MA Comprehensive Examinations


    Our Department is rethinking our system of MA Comprehensive Examinations. We offer two MA's, one in TESOL and one in Applied Linguistics. Students study a core of Linguistics courses plus, for those interested in TESOL, numerous pedagogical and applied courses and practica in the teaching of oficiency and writing.

    Has anyone recently explored the question of MA-final examinations? Could you send us your thoughts, web pages etc? I'll summarize to the list if there is sufficient response.

    Thanks,

    Geoff Nathan, Acting Chair

    Geoffrey S. Nathan Department of Linguistics Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, 62901 USA Phone: +618 453-3421 (Office) FAX +618 453-6527 +618 549-0106 (Home)

    Message 2: Readability Formula for Spanish

     Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 14:27:55 -0500
    From: diana pulido <pulidostudents.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: Readability Formula for Spanish


    Hello,

    Does anyone know of Readability Formula for Spanish texts? Or the applicability of the Flesch Reading Ease, or Gunning Fox index to Spanish, particularly the parameters used in calculating word difficulty?

    Gracias, Diana

    Diana Pulido Spanish Teaching Assistant Dept. of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    4080 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Urbana , IL 61820 (217) 333-3390 pulidouiuc.edu

    Message 3: John Chandioux Experts-Conseils

     Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 13:07:34 +0200
    From: Jeff ALLEN <jeffelda.fr>
    Subject: John Chandioux Experts-Conseils


    Dear colleagues,

    Does anyone know if the company John Chandioux Experts-Conseils in Canada still conducts work in the field of controlled language and machine translation? The e-mail address I have for them (as of December 1996) is no longer functional. Recent Internet searches have not provided any additional information. No reply to my fax of 10 April 1999 that was sent to the number I have for them.

    Does anyone have any updated information?

    Thanks in advance.

    Jeff Allen

    ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europ\233enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeffelda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html

    Message 4: Double modal constructions

     Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:40:20 +0100
    From: jlc115 <jlc115york.ac.uk>
    Subject: Double modal constructions


    I am currently attempting to carry our research on double modal constructions and need contact with speakers of a dialect in which double modals feature.

    Double modals like the following are of interest to me:

    I might could go... I might should go... I might can go... etc.

    I would really appreciate it if anyone who speaks a dialect that has double modals would contact me and in turn, give me grammaticality judgements on some sentences involving such constructions.

    Joanne Close.