http://linguistlist.org Latest Sum Issues en-us Copyright 2008-2017 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:20:04 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3815.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3815.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Here are the results from a survey posted to LinguistList in June of 2017 on syntactic intuitions (acceptability/grammaticality judgements): https://tinyurl.com/y665s2ca. A big thank you to all the participants! http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2146.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2146.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z My question (LINGUIST List 30.1801, Sat Apr 27 2019) was prompted by Randolph Quirk's (1965) use of matrices of pluses, minuses and question marks to describe and perhaps explain similarities and differences of morphosyntax between linguistic items. I'm planning some work on the ideas there. Meanwhile, in case of interest to LINGUIST readers, here's my current understanding of what came before it. Thanks to Peter Matthews (private communication before I posted to LINGUIST), Magdalena Zoeppritz, http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2125.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2125.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Este trabajo, enmarcado en el ámbito de la lingüística contrastiva y centrado en la plasmación de la categoría de la temporalidad en español y griego moderno, somete a una mirada crítica la plurifuncionalidad modotemporal de los llamados tiempos del pasado y tiempos del futuro de indicativo de ambos idiomas, a la vez que resalta las afinidades y divergencias que presenta la categoría del aspecto gramatical. Asimismo ofrece una explicación satisfactoria desde una perspectiva interlingüística al m http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1023.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1023.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Ich arbeite aktuell in der Unternehmenskommunikation eines großen Mode-Versandhändlers. Als ehemalige Lingustik-Studentin möchte ich allerdings gerne weiterhin auf dem Laufenden bleiben, was in der Sprachwissenschaft passiert. http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-884.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-884.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Pursuant to my query posted in the summer of 2017 on the pluricentricity of language varieties (original post: https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-3400.html), I can now follow up with an open-access summary of the problem as it relates to - but is not limited to - the Germanic languages: https://www.academia.edu/37714477/_Chapter_1_frontmatter_The_Pluricentricity_Debate_On_Austrian_German_and_other_Germanic_Standard_Varieties_forthc._in_March_April_2019_ The accompanying book is currentl http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-3927.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-3927.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z I'm in the process of finishing my Master's theses where I'm examining the features of light verb constructions in Croatian and English (e.g. take a nap = baciti spavanac). What I've discovered, through a corpus search, is that Croatian light verb constructions with the verb ''baciti'' (throw) are an emergent property of the conversational style and that they are on their way of becoming a very productive group. The most attested among these constructions are arguably ''baciti pogled'' (take a l http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-3455.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-3455.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Dear fellow linguists, I need your help for my research on the effect of L1 in the L2 acquisition of the indexical shift parameter. For this, I need the shifting parameter in various languages. As far as I know, there isn’t a definitive list of shifting languages, apart from the ones famous in the literature – that is Turkish, Uyghur, Kazaki etc. That is why I need your help. Since testing hasn’t started yet and I will have little time afterwards, I will welcome the parameter from any languag http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-2515.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-2515.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Back in April I asked all of you to contribute your cogitations to this year's conferences survey - courtesy of the dedicated team at the Sociolinguistic Events Calendar! (https://www.baal.org.uk/resources/slxevents) And now......... the results are in! As with our previous surveys (https://academia.edu/14266444/, https://academia.edu/26782739/) I've written up this year's into a fancy looking report for all to enjoy: https://academia.edu/36820838/. Download it and set it as your desktop w http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-1657.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-1657.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Thanks to all of you who submitted a suggestion for a linguistic disciplinary history that has the potential to reach a wider audience. The original query from January 2018 is here: https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-505.html I got the following submissions, which are all worthy to take a look at (hopefully including the last one. Thanks for helping to shape this title with your reading suggestions): * The history of Linguistics from Plato to 1600 (2003) by Vivian Law. See https://bo http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-822.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-822.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Summary pertaining to LingList Discussion 28-3400 (15 Aug. 2017): https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-3400.html My query from August 2017 on the modelling of languages in a pluricentric framework triggered only a couple, yet highly interesting contributions. This return rate may have been owed to the high-summer time frame, as the topic is otherwise quite popular. Here are the responses in summary: Greville Corbett (University of Surrey, Guildford, UK) states that on the South Slavi http://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-4697.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-4697.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Dear colleagues, this relates to my LinguistList query ''Adjunction Site for Time Adverbials in English'' (28.4531). I am grateful to the following people for their judgements and comments: Benjamin Bruening, Bruce Despain, Matthew Reeve, And Rosta, Rudy Troike. Most of them find all my examples (1)-(8) acceptable and observe that those sentences where the time adverbial is left stranded by VP preposing, i.e. (2, 4, 6, 8), require comma intonation or heavy stress on the adverbial. And Rost http://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-3811.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-3811.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Some months ago I asked listers to tell me whether grammar (i.e. grammatical analysis) is taught in their country, and if so, how. I received a number of answers which have allowed me to expand the information at http://teach-grammar.com/geography, which now includes some information about 19 countries. Some of the information is rich, but most is sparse and short of details such as sample pages from textbooks or exam questions. If you would like to expand the collection further to enrich any of http://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-3483.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-3483.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z In LL issue 28.3311 I posted a query asking for information about courses being taught on swearing or other types of taboo language. I received six responses. A summary, including name/institution (dept)/course or topic, as given by the respondents is listed below: Betty Birner, Northern Illinois University (English), Topics in Linguistics: Forbidden language Israel Cohen, Florida, Anthropomorphic maps and Phono-semantic matching in idiom formation Randall Eggert, University of Utah http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-2136.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-2136.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Discussion period: 19 Feb. to c. mid March 2016. The discussion was centred on this draft paper: https://www.academia.edu/s/1a487c74ab And was announced in https://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-939.html Summary: Fifty-two discussants partook in the 21-day Session on academia.edu. I will attempt to summarize the most salient issues, in my view, below. For other topics, please refer directly to the Session link (read from the bottom up). Thanks to all those who gave their time. Apolog http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-4932.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-4932.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Dear colleagues, In 2011-2012, I conducted the Language Learning Beliefs Survey (LLBS) and placed a request for participants on the Linguist List. A first publication (abstract below) on some of the data has now appeared as a peer-reviewed article in the International Journal of Multilingualism: Peek, R. (2015). Exploring learner autonomy: language learning locus of control in multilinguals, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2015.1090991 Thank you once again to all of you who were http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-2445.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-2445.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z 26.2105, Qs: Epistemic Let me first express my gratitude to And Rosta, Bruce Despain and Carolin Baumann. Part I: Purpose and Result The original purpose is to see if my assumption is valid that under the interpretation of (2), May is what receives the primary stress in (1): (1) May John be leaving? (2) Do you agree that there is a possibility of John’s leaving? (Anderson 2011:155) In my previous post, I actually tried to kill two birds with one stone. Both Palmer (1987) and Decler http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-1711.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-1711.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Dear all, Some time ago, I posted a query entitles “Morphology of tense across languages”: --- Dear all, Does anyone know of a language where present tense is signaled by overt morphology, while past/future is not? Thank you very much. --- I received very helpful replies from the following people: Martin Haspelmath Ivan Kapitonov Bruno Olsson Steve-Monica Parker Daniel Ross Thank you so much! Here is a brief summary of the replies: 1. Martin Haspelmath helpfully sent me http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-1302.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-1302.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z I refer to my posting LL 26. 1020 and first of all thank my linguistic fraternity, especially Mr/Ms Giurgea, Joe, Ron, Claudia, Geoffrey, Daniela, Muller, Israel for their responses to my Query. Prof. Joseph Foster has suggested that the Tamil word ‘Navai’ and English ’Navy’ is another case of accidental resemblance. In this connection, I reproduce here-under my observations on ‘accidental resemblances’ posted in LL 14.1630. A conclusion of ‘chance resemblance’ can be arrived at, only aft http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3813.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3813.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z Dear Linguist List members, Earlier this year, PARSEME (COST Action IC1207: http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme) launched a survey of language resources (LRs) containing MWEs. PARSEME is an interdisciplinary scientific network devoted to the role of multiword expressions (MWEs) in parsing. We are most grateful for all contributions, which currently include 84 LRs and tools. You are invited to view the anonymized results here: http://goo.gl/WWZwzO Moreover, we kindly appreciate any em http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3111.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3111.html 2019-10-10T09:28:48Z FIRST, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE MEMBERS WHO RESPONDED TO MY QUERY ON THE USE OF “VOIR” ‘TO SEE’ IN IMPERATIVE UTTERANCES. THE RESPONSES WERE VERY HELPFUL. HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE COMMENTS I HAVE RECEIVED. LOUISIANA FRENCH HAS A SIMILAR USE OF “VOIR”, WHICH IS NOT SURPRISING SINCE IT IS AN ACADIAN FRENCH VARIETY. EXAMPLES ARE PROVIDED IN THE DICTIONARY OF LOUISIANA FRENCH AS SPOKEN IN CAJUN, CREOLE, AND AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITIES AS WELL AS IN THE DICTIONARY OF THE CAJUN