LINGUIST List 13.916

Tue Apr 2 2002

FYI: Virtual Ling, South Asian Langs, Plural of Euro

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

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  • Handke, The Virtual Linguistics Campus
  • John Peterson, Internet Bibliography on South Asian Languages
  • Michael Everson, The plural of euro is euros

    Message 1: The Virtual Linguistics Campus

     Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:23:45 +0200
    From: Handke <handkeMailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
    Subject: The Virtual Linguistics Campus


    Now Online - Your Virtual Linguistics Campus

    After more than a year of intensive developement (implementation, evaluation, and testing), and an average of 80.000 visits per month, we now officially launch the Virtual Linguistics Campus (http://www.linguistics-online.de)

    The Virtual Linguistics Campus is a non-commercial joint project of the German universities of Essen, Marburg, and Wuppertal financed by the German Government. The development and implementation has been carried out by the Linguistic Engineering Team of Marburg University. Even though we are still working (and will be), the linguistic material available at this point in time may be of great help for students, staff, and researchers in linguistics.

    The Virtual Linguistics Campus offers courses in linguistics and many more. It realizes most options of a real campus: a lecture hall, a laboratory, a library, and special sections for students and staff. All administrative facilities necessary for studying linguistics have also been included: a registration office, an information desk, and means of communication, such as chat rooms, message boards, and many more. The techniques of presenting the linguistic material on the Virtual Linguistics Campus are beyond the scope of conventional methods of presentation.

    Have a look around, visit the ,buildings' of the campus, and feel free to contact us: infolinguistics-online.de



    Juergen Handke, Project Conductor

    Prof. Dr. Juergen Handke Uni Marburg FB 10 35043 Marburg +49 6421 2825558

    Websites: http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~handke http://www.linguistics-online.de

    Message 2: Internet Bibliography on South Asian Languages

     Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:41:02 +0100
    From: John Peterson <jpetersouni-osnabrueck.de>
    Subject: Internet Bibliography on South Asian Languages


    I would like to call the readers' attention to the following homepage:

    http://www.southasiabibliography.de/

    This bibliography is intended to help researchers of seldom studied or endangered South Asian languages in locating literature on these languages. It is also intended to be a means of letting other researchers know of new work in the field which may be of interest to them. "South Asia" here includes India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Tibet. Included are languages belonging to the Indo-European, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman and Austro-Asiatic families, the isolates Andamanese, Burushaski and Kusunda, as well as the sign languages of the subcontinent.

    Unforunately, works on better studied languages such as Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali, Kashmiri, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada cannot be included in the present bibliography. However, due to my own research interests, Nepali has been included and works on tribal languages in general, even if these are neither endangered nor seldom studied (e.g. Santali), have been included.

    There are also links to a number of related homepages as well as to email lists dedicated to South Asian linguistics.

    The bibliography, while not complete, has proven immensely popular and is growing almost daily. If your works are not included in the bibliography, please send me the bibliographic data and I will include them as soon as possible.

    All the best, John Peterson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John Peterson FB 7, Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Osnabrueck 49069 Osnabrueck Germany Tel. (+49) 541-969-4252 Fax. (+49) 541-969-4256 Homepage: http://www.southasiabibliography.de

    Message 3: The plural of euro is euros

     Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 19:08:14 +0100
    From: Michael Everson <eversonevertype.com>
    Subject: The plural of euro is euros


    A bit of sociolinguistics for the Linguist List. We're having a dreadful time in Ireland because the impossible and invented plurals "euro and cent" have been promulgated by the Irish government to the media, which broadcasts the "legislative" plurals into everyone's home hundreds of times each day.

    I am on a campaign to get this stopped. I have discovered that it appears that a misunderstanding of the intent of a European Council regulation is at the root of this evil. If you've an interest in sociolinguistic disasters, do visit http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/index.html and see one voice crying in the wilderness trying to do something about it. - Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com 15 Port Chaeimhghein �ochtarach; Baile �tha Cliath 2; �ire/Ireland Telephone +353 86 807 9169 *** Fax +353 1 478 2597 (by arrangement)