LINGUIST List 8.1718

Sat Nov 29 1997

FYI: Bilingual Concordancing Tool, Language Typology

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  • Elliott Macklovitch, TransSearch
  • Bernhard Hiegl, 6th DGfS-Summer School 1998: Language Typology

    Message 1: TransSearch

     Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:39:35 -0500 (EST)
    From: Elliott Macklovitch <mackloviIRO.UMontreal.CA>
    Subject: TransSearch


    Your correspondents may be interested in trying out TransSearch, the RALI's bilingual concordancing tool, which is accessible via the Web, free of charge, at the following URL:

    http://www-rali.iro.umontreal.ca/TransSearch/

    This Web version of TransSearch allows you to query a database composed of seven years of Parliamentary debates (the Canadian Parliament's Hansard, 1986-1993), or approximately 100 million words of English-French translation. You simply submit a problematic word or expression in one language and TransSearch retrieves all its occurrences in the database - WITH THE TRANSLATION DISPLAYED ALONGSIDE EACH OCCURRENCE IN CONTEXT. With TransSearch, it's as though you had a group of highly qualified Parliamentary translators at your personal disposal and could ask them the following question: "Have you ever seen this word or expression; and if so, how did you translate it?"

    Of course, the domain of Parliamentary debates may not always be relevant for the translation of technical or other highly specialized texts. Nevertheless, for general problems of English-French translation - or for simply surmounting a case of writer's block - TransSearch can very often provide invaluable suggestions. In my (necessarily partial) opinion, it's a veritable goldmine for translators.

    I encourage you to give TransSearch a try. If you find that TransSearch would be a useful resource for, may I suggest that you add a link to it on your own remarkable Web page.

    Should you have any further questions about TransSearch, please do not hesitate to contact me.

    Elliott Macklovitch Laboratoire RALI Universite de Montreal

    Message 2: 6th DGfS-Summer School 1998: Language Typology

     Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:03:14 +0100
    From: Bernhard Hiegl <lingtypgoofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
    Subject: 6th DGfS-Summer School 1998: Language Typology


    6th DGfS-Summer School 1998: \132Language Typology\147 from August, 31 - September, 11 1998 at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz Prof. Dr. Walter Bisang / Bernhard Hiegl M.A.

    The sixth Summer School of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz from August, 31 to September, 11 1998.

    1. Contents

    14 courses of 2 hours a day from Monday to Friday Plenary discussions every day plus distinguished guest speakers

    Participation will be certified. The number of credits at the home university of individual participants is, however, subject to the individual regulations at the home universities in question. No guarantees can be provided in any way by our institute.

    Lecturers/Courses: Courses entitled in German will be held in German; courses entitled in English will be held in English -Auer, Peter (Hamburg): Sprachtypologie und Phonologie (Language typology and phonology) -Bisang, Walter (Mainz): Grammatikalisierung (Grammaticalization) -Cinque, Guglielmo (Venice): Formal grammar and typology -Comrie, Bernard (California): The syntax and typology of adverbs and Tense/Mood/Modality/Aspect -Corbett, Greville (Surrey): Typology of gender systems and number systems -Croft, William (Manchester): Typology and cognition -Foley, William (Sidney): Comparative grammar of Papuan languages -Haspelmath, Martin (Bamberg): Morphologische Typologie (Morphological typology) -Kornfilt, Jaklin (Syracuse): Theoretical perspectives in syntactic change -Lehmann, Christian (Bielefeld): Typologie des Yukatekischen (Typology of Yucatec) -Plank, Frans (Aarhus, DK) und Lahiri, Aditi (Konstanz): Co-variation of phonology, morphology, and syntax? The prospects for holistic typology -Siewierska, Anna (Lancaster): Word order typology: synchrony and diachrony -Stassen, Leon (Nijmegen): Typology as a reductionist method -Stolz, Thomas (Bremen): Sprachliche Konvergenz: Areale und Typologie (Linguistic convergence: areals and typology)

    Our distinguished guest speakers are: -Haider, Hubert (Salzburg): Sprachvergleich in der Formalen Linguistik (Language comparison in formal linguistics) -Johanson, Lars (Mainz): Aspect -Ramat, Paolo (Pavia): Sprachliche Kategorien und Kategorisierungen -Van der Auwera, Johan (Antwerpen): Areality in language typology (with special reference to the problem of Standard Average European languages)

    Every day, there will be plenary discussions of approximately one hour with respect to recent developments in the research fields of the lecturers. A more detailed schedule will be published in near future in our homepage! (see end of this leaflet) However, it has already been determined that the courses will be assigned to three timeblocks. The planned assignments to the individual blocks look like follows:

    10:45 - 12:15 Auer/Corbett/Comrie/Siewierska 13:45 - 15:15 Cinque/Croft/Foley/Haspelmath/Stolz 15:30 - 17:00 Bisang/Kornfilt/Lehmann/Plank+Lahiri/Stassen

    2. Costs

    -Students and Persons without income:DM 280/350*(DGfS-Member:DM 252/315*) -University Employees and Persons with income:DM 560/650*(DGfS-Member:DM 504/585*) -Participants from `countries with low salaries\180 have to pay half of the students fees.

    * = Participants fee after June, 30 1998.

    Grants: The German Linguistic Society will pay tuition fees for maximally 20 participants to support particularly qualified and promising young linguists. Selections will be made by the program committee (W:Bisang, U.Demske, E.K\246nig, G.Wurzel) on the basis of track records and the income of applicants (no more than DM 18.000,-/year). Please, send applications to the local organizer by March 31 1998. Walter Bisang Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\228t Mainz Institut f\252r Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft Jakob-Welder-Weg 18 D-55099 Mainz

    3. Accomodation

    There are accomodation possibilities on Campus at very reasonable prices (approximately 100 beds): -1 bed in a double room: approx. DM 170,-- for 2 weeks +deposit of DM 50,-- -1 bed in a single room: approx. DM 210,-- for 2 weeks +deposit of DM 50,--

    The assignment follows after application in chronological order of requests. Mediation of hotel rooms is also possible.

    4. Application/Information

    DGfS-Summer School Attn.: Mr. Bernhard Hiegl Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\228t Mainz Institut f\252r Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft FB 14.20 D-55099 Mainz, Germany Phone/Fax: +49 (0)6131 / 39-3980 e-mail: lingtypmail.uni-mainz.de www: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~lingtyp (application form is available here)