LINGUIST List 13.509

Sat Feb 23 2002

FYI: Ling Contest, Online Video Archive

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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  • Ivan A Derzhanski, Ling Contest for Bulgarian High School Students
  • Fodor, Janet Dean, LSA Video Archive is now open

    Message 1: Ling Contest for Bulgarian High School Students

     Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:35:21 +0200
    From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iadmath.bas.bg>
    Subject: Ling Contest for Bulgarian High School Students


    This year's Winter Contest in Linguistics for Bulgarian high school students was held in Ruse on 7-9 February. There were 30 participants - more than ever since 1996, when I became involved with the event.

    Two of the problems required the contestants to analyse data from an unknown language, take notice of the relevant facts and do some translating or pairing up. This year's problems involved Irish relativisation and initial consonant mutation and the formation of the oblique noun stem in Lezgi. The third problem was based on the contestants' native language: they were asked to devote some thought to Bulgarian measure expressions of the `cup of tea' variety.

    I've made a directory, http://www.math.bas.bg/ml/iad/ruse02/ where the following files can be found:

    * Ruse02pdf.zip Problems 1 and 2 (w/ solutions) in English, in PDF. * Ruse02ps.zip The same thing in PostScript. * Ruse02-3.zip Problem 3 (w/ sample solution) in Bulgarian. * Ruse02.zip The whole problem set (w/ solutions) in Bulgarian.

    They'll be there for at least a fortnight, but I may take them off afterwards, so get them now. And do let me know what you think.

    - Ivan A Derzhanski http://www.math.bas.bg/ml/iad/ H: cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria <iadmath.bas.bg> W: Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences

    Message 2: LSA Video Archive is now open

     Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:04:25 -0500
    From: Fodor, Janet Dean <JFodorgc.cuny.edu>
    Subject: LSA Video Archive is now open


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    LSA VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOW OPEN

    The LSA Video Archive is now open for viewing at http://www.uga.edu/lsava. It offers short video clips on a variety of language topics. More items will be added as time goes on. There is information at the site about the aims of the project, and about how to submit a video. All linguists are welcome to contribute. Please tell your colleagues, students and friends about the site.