LINGUIST List 11.2392

Sun Nov 5 2000

Qs: Icelandic Construction, Arabic as Mother Tongue

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    Message 1: Icelandic existential constructions

     Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 07:12:36 EST
    From: YukaMakita <YukaMakitaaol.com>
    Subject: Icelandic existential constructions


    Dear Linguists,

    I'm Yuka Makita, a graduate student at Nagoya University, Japan. I'm interested in a comparative and a diachronic study of existential constructions. And, now, I'd like some native speakers of Icelandic to make grammatical judgement of the sentences below.

    - --- [Q1] I want to ask you whether the following word order is possible or not in Icelandic. (never = 'aldrei' in Icelandic, (1) and (2) are English translation.) And, (1) includes the adverb 'never' (=aldrei). Can it be replaced by some other VP adverbs?

    (1) a. there put the butter never any students in the pocket b. there put never any students the butter in the pocket c. there put any students never the butter in the pocket d. there put any students the butter never in the pocket

    (2) a there have any students never put the butter in the pocket b. there have never any students put the butter in the pocket - --- [Q2] Are the following examples acceptable in Icelandic?

    (3) There stepped an old man into the bus cautiously. (4) An old man stepped into the bus cautiously.

    - ---

    Thanks in advance,

    ***** Yuka Makita E-mail: YukaMakitaaol.com

    Message 2: Acquisition of Arabic as mother tongue

     Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 00:05:36 +0100
    From: Amr IBRAHIM <amr.ibrahim1libertysurf.fr>
    Subject: Acquisition of Arabic as mother tongue


    Supervising a graduate work on the acquisition of Arabic as a mother tongue from a strictly linguistical point of view I noticed there were nearly nothing writtten on the subject in English, French or Arabic. Is there anybody working in the field? Is anyone familiar with serious litterature about this question ? With some of my colleagues I am planning to organise a meeting in Paris at the end of 2001 to gather those who have something done in this direction and wish to share their experience or look for new insights. Therefore we would appreciate any kind of information related to the acquisition of arabic as a mother thongue. We are also looking for people interested by the meeting. I shall post a summary as soon as the information received will deserve it. Please feel free to answer in the language in which you feel more at ease.

    Amr Helmy IBRAHIM amr.ibrahim1libertysurf.fr Fax 33 1 48 00 09 42 - Amr Helmy IBRAHIM Professeur de Linguistique � l'Universit� de Franche-Comt�

    Responsable de la C.R.F.L.F.C. Cellule de Recherche Fondamentale en Linguistique Fran�aise et Compar�e Centre Lucien Tesni�res - �quipe d'accueil n� 2283

    5, rue Louis L�on Lepoutre 94130 Nogent-sur-Marne (FRANCE) Tel. 33 1 48 76 09 57 ou 33 6 62 00 09 57 Fax 33 1 48 00 09 42 ou (sur portable) 33 6 62 20 09 57 Courriel / e-mail amr.ibrahim1libertysurf.fr