LINGUIST List 13.224

Mon Jan 28 2002

Qs: Ling Calendar, Edmonson & Solnit/Comp Kadai

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  • Mikael Parkvall, Linguistic calendar
  • qin, Comparative Kadai by Edmonson & Solnit

    Message 1: Linguistic calendar

     Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:00:07 +0100
    From: Mikael Parkvall <parkvallling.su.se>
    Subject: Linguistic calendar


    Don't we all feel the need for an academic excuse for partying every once in a while?

    Well, I have made a modest attempt to provide one. Or rather, hundreds of them. There's a draft version of a "Linguistic Calendar" at

    http://www.ling.su.se/staff/parkvall/Calendar.html

    (it is _very_ much a draft version, so please ignore the crappy formatting)

    Events featured this far include: The first public demonstration of the voice synthesizer "Euphonium", the discovery of Broca's Area, the submission of Jules Gilleron's thesis, the birth of revived Hebrew, Saussure taking a sabbatical from Sorbonne, the coining of the words "Boycott" and "(computer) bug", details on the correspondence between Frege and Russell, Chomky and Bloomfield getting married (not to each other, duh), the publication dates of "Aspects" and "The Mimimalist Program", the start of the Inuktitut language week, and public language-related holidays in Estonia, Finland, Modavia, Bulgaria and Korea, the beginning of Washoe's language training, etc.

    The intention is to feature at least one event of major or lesser language-related significance for each day. I discovered, though, that while it would be pretty easy to make a linguistic timeline with important events of this or that _year_, it is considerably more difficult to do so for each _day_. Birth and deaths are relatively easy to find, as well as the passing of various language laws, but listing only such events tend to be somewhat monotonous. I would therefore be happy for any input that you may have on the calendar. With your help, maybe the end result could be a list of 365 good reasons to end the day at the pub.

    /MP

    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Mikael Parkvall Institutionen f�r lingvistik Stockholms Universitet SE-10691 STOCKHOLM (rum 276)

    Message 2: Comparative Kadai by Edmonson & Solnit

     Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:53:50 +0800
    From: qin <cherryqylhotmail.com>
    Subject: Comparative Kadai by Edmonson & Solnit




    Dear Readers,

    I'm very much interested in a book named Comparative Kadai (written by Edmomson & Solnit). I'm in great need of it, but with great efforts it's still unavailable to me. I'm particularly interested in the part"Wuming Zhuang tone sandhi: A phonological, syntactic and lexical investigation'. If anyone can tell me how I can get it I will appreciate it very much if you can do me such a favour.

    I'm looking forward to your response. Thanks a million!