LINGUIST List 17.1912

Thu Jun 29 2006

Qs: Najavo Corpus Request; History of French Textbooks

Editor for this issue: Jessica Boynton <jessicalinguistlist.org>


Directory         1.    Tammy Gales, Najavo Corpus Request
        2.    Richard Epstein, History of French Textbooks


Message 1: Najavo Corpus Request
Date: 28-Jun-2006
From: Tammy Gales <tgalesucdavis.edu>
Subject: Najavo Corpus Request


I am currently working on a Navajo Syntax project, and I am wondering ifanyone knows of an existing Navajo corpus that is available for researchpurposes. I appreciate any feedback or potential ideas.

Thank you,Tammy GalesPhD StudentUCDavis, Linguistics Departmenttgalesucdavis.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax                             Text/Corpus Linguistics
Message 2: History of French Textbooks
Date: 26-Jun-2006
From: Richard Epstein <repsteincamden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: History of French Textbooks


I'll be teaching a course called ''History of the French Language'' and washoping that List readers could recommend a textbook? The course will begeared towards undergraduates with little or no Linguistics background(mostly none at all) and a wide range of French abilities (from nearly noneto nearly fluent; and presumably, no knowledge at all of Latin).Therefore, the course will be taught in English. The ideal text, then,won't be very technical, will cover both internal and external history, andwill be written in English (I suspect in advance that such a text probablydoesn't exist, but I guess it can't hurt to ask!).

Any suggestions for an appropriate textbook and/or useful articles would begreatly appreciated. Thank you very much. If there's interest, I willgladly post a summary back to the List.

Best regards,Rich EpsteinDept. of EnglishRutgers University - Camden

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics