From Salinas17 at AOL.COM Mon Sep 1 17:01:25 2003 From: Salinas17 at AOL.COM (Salinas17 at AOL.COM) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:01:25 EDT Subject: Origin of genitive and possessive constructions Message-ID: In a message dated 8/24/03 3:05:02 PM, suzie.bartsch at T-ONLINE.DE writes: << I'm searching for functional-cognitive accounts on the historical emergence and grammaticalization of possessive and genitive constructions in German, English and Portuguese (and other languages as well), in following idioms : (1a) Engl. It's my turn. (1b) Engl. It's Gabriel's turn. >> (2a) Port. É a minha vez. [Is the my turn ...] (2b) Port. É a vez do Gabriel. [Is the turn of-the Gabriel.] (3a) Germ. Ich bin dran [I am there-at.] Ich bin an der Reihe. [I am at the row.]...> A question and a comment on the above: 1. I'd be curious to know why you've limited this set to this equivalents. In English, we have other idomatic phrases that have similar if not identical gist and consequence -- - May I go next? - Who is next? - I go next. - Gabriel is next in line. - I'm after him. - I go after him. - Now, it's to you, Gabriel. - Wait your turn. - Hold my place/space in line. 2. What separates "I go next" from "My turn is next", I think, is not really the implications of what has been said. If you hear them at a line for concert tickets, they mean fundamentally the same thing and are taken as interchangeable. Any difference in emphasis, whatever the "subconscious" implications, are probably unintentional. The choice between the two could probably be random, I think. Assigning an order to activity, of course, does not need to involve a genitive or possessive -- logically. I suppose it became a moral or legal or other kind of "right" or proprietary thing to "own" a turn depending on cultural perceptions. "Who's turn is it for a spanking?" would of course go towards a different kind of future possession, one that we might not want to endorse -- "I'm not next". I'd suggest a more fundamental understanding of the genitive or possessive can be had by looking across the more difficult and earlier instances where the constructions occur. A good example is proper names, where historical development points to a rather complex path that visited many different points-of-view on the relationship between the subject and the name. See, e.g., E. Adelaide Hahn, Naming-Constructions in Indo-European Languages, American Philological Society, Monograph #27, Case Western Reserve Univ, 1969. Whatever the organs or processes that allow us to discriminate between the implications of "We call him Gabriel", "His name is Gabriel", "He is known by the name of Gabriel", "He is Gabriel" or "The name Gabriel was given to him", the first important point is whether the diifferences are meaningful or "functional". Do they make a difference? Or did they once, but are those differences now vestigal? If I make such distinctions, do I have a reasonable expectation that the difference will be understood by the listener? Compare "We call him Gabriel, as he is angelic..." versus "We call him Gabriel, but his real name is Ricardo." See the "partitive accusative" concept in Hahn, cited above. What is the function of the genitive or the possessive? Shed of cultural concepts, are they ever more than attributive? Are they ever more than extensions of "I have, I hold, I take, I give or I am given"? Is the additional baggage just explicit or understood references to ramifications? When we move historically from "this book [was given] to me" to "this book is mine", are we simply seeing a firmer idea of the consequences of that statement? Just a thought... 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The book will be stimulating reading for psycholinguists, theoretical linguists, applied linguists and educators. Contents Introduction Finite State and Generative Models Early Experimental Studies Connectionist and Symbolic Models Current Theories of Individual Differences Long-Term Working Memory Saussure's Theory of Language Patterns of Individual Differences Effects of Recall Training and Comprehension Training Conclusion -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From authier at VJF.CNRS.FR Fri Sep 19 07:04:51 2003 From: authier at VJF.CNRS.FR (Gilles Authier) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:04:51 +0200 Subject: Personal Pronoun Message-ID: Dear All I d like to have this question forwarded through Funknet : Does anybody have instances of Personal Pronoun systems where a 1st person plural exclusive is distinct of a 1st person plural inclusive AND this 1 person plural inclusive serves also as the 2d person plural. That is, two forms, with the repartition "we excl." distinct of "we incl. = you plural". Thank you ! Gilles Authier authiervjf.cnrs.fr From bill_mann at SIL.ORG Fri Sep 19 14:44:35 2003 From: bill_mann at SIL.ORG (William Mann) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:44:35 -0400 Subject: Dialogue Data: Dialogue Diversity Corpus Version 2.0 Message-ID: Announcement DIALOGUE DIVERSITY CORPUS: Version 2.0 (apologies if you receive multiple copies) A new release of the Dialogue Diversity Corpus (DDC) is available for facilitating research on human dialogue. The DDC gives direct access to a set of dialogue transcripts (13 sources, more than 12 hours of dialogue, all in English.). It also gives a set of links and methods for indirect access to hundreds of additional dialogues (principally in English.) Many sources provide speech data as well as transcripts. The emphasis is on free or inexpensive access. 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I am looking for articles dealing with theoretical and practical methods of the teaching of literature and/or culture, how technology can be used for the teaching of literature/culture, student attitudes towards literature/culture, the role of literature in various disciplines, how culture can influence the learning process, the future of literary/cultural studies, ethical issues concerning the teaching of literature/culture, and the assessment of literary/cultural learning. http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/win0222.htm The articles should be 1500-3000 words long. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of our journal, no single format or manuscript style is required. The articles may be submitted by MS Word or postal mail. For submission information, go to the following URL: http://www.higher-ed.org/AEQ/rufen1.htm Rebecca L. Chism, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies 109 Satterfield Hall Kent State University Kent, OH 44242 rlchism@ kent.edu http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/edprch.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE Sat Sep 20 12:14:22 2003 From: W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE (W. Schulze) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:14:22 +0200 Subject: Personal Pronoun Message-ID: Gilles Authier schrieb: > Dear All > > I d like to have this question forwarded through Funknet : > > Does anybody have instances of Personal Pronoun systems where a 1st > person plural exclusive is distinct of a 1st person plural inclusive > AND this 1 person plural inclusive serves also as the 2d person > plural. That is, two forms, with the repartition "we excl." distinct > of "we incl. = you plural". > Perhaps Gilles should make clear whether the language at issue knows another option for the 2pl, for instance something like a 2pl exclusive (excluding the first person or locutor). For instance, the Borch dialect of Rutul (East Caucasian, Lezgian) has the opposition /vu%q%na"r/ (% = pharyngealization) 'you (pl.) with us' vs. /we^%/ (e^ = schwa) 'you without us' (note that in this dialect, the 2pl. exclusive comes close to the first person plural exclusive (/yu%q%na"r/), but not to the inclusive (/yanur/)). Most likely, the two exlusive forms are marked for a 'privative' element (/-q%-na"r/) that excludes the 'second person' in role swapping. The merger you have mentioned reminds me of tendencies for instance in the Meheb dialect of Dargwa (East Caucasian) to use a focus particle (/-ra/) to mark the first person in assertions, whereas it marks the second person in questions, compare (nu) quli-w le-w-ra (I) home:loc-cl:I be-cl:I-foc:1sg 'I am at home' (h^u) quli-w le-w-ra-w (you) home:loc-cl:I be-cl:I-foc:2sg-Q 'Are you at home?' In other words, modality discriminates the two communicative referents, not morphology. This observation is related to the well-known distribution of personhood: In a standard corpus, the 1sg/pl usually occurs in assertions ('indicative'), whereas the 2sg/pl is typical in modal constructions (questions, imperatives, inferentials etc.). It may well be that the distribution Gilles has mentioned is related to the same functional mechanism: If we read the inclusive as a cluster 'I+you', we may assume that its rendering as a 1pl:incl is linked to assertions (focusing on the 'I'-component), whereas in modal construction, the focus lies on the 'you'-component resulting in a 2pl:incl. Hence, it would perhaps be wise to check the constructional types into which Gilles' pronoun(s) are textually embedded. Things may be different, if Gilles' data do not show any 'true' 2pl (exclusive). In this case, the above mentioned distribution would not work. Hope that helps a bit, Wolfgang -- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulze Institut für Allgemeine und Typologische Sprachwissenschaft - General Linguistics and Language Typology - Dept. 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We apologize for multiple postings] Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCOLA) John Benjamins Publishing Company (www.benjamins.com) Edited by Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza University of La Rioja, Logroño Associate Editors Carlos Inchaurralde (University of Zaragoza) Sandra Peña Cervel (National University of Distance Education) Lorena Pérez Hernández (University of la Rioja) Jesús Sánchez (University of Córdoba) The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective. Fruitful debate is encouraged with neighboring academic disciplines as well as with other approaches to language study, particularly functionally-oriented ones. The Editor invites submissions for Vol. 2 (2004). Submissions should be received before December 31st, 2003. 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URL: From Salinas17 at AOL.COM Mon Sep 1 17:01:25 2003 From: Salinas17 at AOL.COM (Salinas17 at AOL.COM) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:01:25 EDT Subject: Origin of genitive and possessive constructions Message-ID: In a message dated 8/24/03 3:05:02 PM, suzie.bartsch at T-ONLINE.DE writes: << I'm searching for functional-cognitive accounts on the historical emergence and grammaticalization of possessive and genitive constructions in German, English and Portuguese (and other languages as well), in following idioms : (1a) Engl. It's my turn. (1b) Engl. It's Gabriel's turn. >> (2a) Port. ? a minha vez. [Is the my turn ...] (2b) Port. ? a vez do Gabriel. [Is the turn of-the Gabriel.] (3a) Germ. Ich bin dran [I am there-at.] Ich bin an der Reihe. [I am at the row.]...> A question and a comment on the above: 1. I'd be curious to know why you've limited this set to this equivalents. In English, we have other idomatic phrases that have similar if not identical gist and consequence -- - May I go next? - Who is next? - I go next. - Gabriel is next in line. - I'm after him. - I go after him. - Now, it's to you, Gabriel. - Wait your turn. - Hold my place/space in line. 2. What separates "I go next" from "My turn is next", I think, is not really the implications of what has been said. If you hear them at a line for concert tickets, they mean fundamentally the same thing and are taken as interchangeable. Any difference in emphasis, whatever the "subconscious" implications, are probably unintentional. The choice between the two could probably be random, I think. Assigning an order to activity, of course, does not need to involve a genitive or possessive -- logically. I suppose it became a moral or legal or other kind of "right" or proprietary thing to "own" a turn depending on cultural perceptions. "Who's turn is it for a spanking?" would of course go towards a different kind of future possession, one that we might not want to endorse -- "I'm not next". I'd suggest a more fundamental understanding of the genitive or possessive can be had by looking across the more difficult and earlier instances where the constructions occur. A good example is proper names, where historical development points to a rather complex path that visited many different points-of-view on the relationship between the subject and the name. See, e.g., E. Adelaide Hahn, Naming-Constructions in Indo-European Languages, American Philological Society, Monograph #27, Case Western Reserve Univ, 1969. Whatever the organs or processes that allow us to discriminate between the implications of "We call him Gabriel", "His name is Gabriel", "He is known by the name of Gabriel", "He is Gabriel" or "The name Gabriel was given to him", the first important point is whether the diifferences are meaningful or "functional". Do they make a difference? Or did they once, but are those differences now vestigal? If I make such distinctions, do I have a reasonable expectation that the difference will be understood by the listener? Compare "We call him Gabriel, as he is angelic..." versus "We call him Gabriel, but his real name is Ricardo." See the "partitive accusative" concept in Hahn, cited above. What is the function of the genitive or the possessive? Shed of cultural concepts, are they ever more than attributive? Are they ever more than extensions of "I have, I hold, I take, I give or I am given"? Is the additional baggage just explicit or understood references to ramifications? When we move historically from "this book [was given] to me" to "this book is mine", are we simply seeing a firmer idea of the consequences of that statement? Just a thought... 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The book will be stimulating reading for psycholinguists, theoretical linguists, applied linguists and educators. Contents Introduction Finite State and Generative Models Early Experimental Studies Connectionist and Symbolic Models Current Theories of Individual Differences Long-Term Working Memory Saussure's Theory of Language Patterns of Individual Differences Effects of Recall Training and Comprehension Training Conclusion -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From authier at VJF.CNRS.FR Fri Sep 19 07:04:51 2003 From: authier at VJF.CNRS.FR (Gilles Authier) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:04:51 +0200 Subject: Personal Pronoun Message-ID: Dear All I d like to have this question forwarded through Funknet : Does anybody have instances of Personal Pronoun systems where a 1st person plural exclusive is distinct of a 1st person plural inclusive AND this 1 person plural inclusive serves also as the 2d person plural. That is, two forms, with the repartition "we excl." distinct of "we incl. = you plural". Thank you ! Gilles Authier authiervjf.cnrs.fr From bill_mann at SIL.ORG Fri Sep 19 14:44:35 2003 From: bill_mann at SIL.ORG (William Mann) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:44:35 -0400 Subject: Dialogue Data: Dialogue Diversity Corpus Version 2.0 Message-ID: Announcement DIALOGUE DIVERSITY CORPUS: Version 2.0 (apologies if you receive multiple copies) A new release of the Dialogue Diversity Corpus (DDC) is available for facilitating research on human dialogue. The DDC gives direct access to a set of dialogue transcripts (13 sources, more than 12 hours of dialogue, all in English.). It also gives a set of links and methods for indirect access to hundreds of additional dialogues (principally in English.) Many sources provide speech data as well as transcripts. The emphasis is on free or inexpensive access. Volume 2.0 presents access to hundreds of dialogues that were not represented in the original release in October 2002. It is more diverse in terms of situations and dynamic patterns. Access to oral history interviews, the Watergate tapes (by several paths), diverse regional varieties of English (both British and international), the just-emerging American National Corpus (ANC), the U. S. Supreme Court, and other originally non-linguistic sources are presented for the first time. The dialogues in this corpus occurred in a very diverse collection of interactive situations. Thus it is a data resource for studies of the breadth of coverage of particular dialogue models, and for studies that compare dialogue from different situations. For smaller projects such as pilot studies, computer program testing and even some term papers, the direct access portion can be sufficient. The indirect access methods yield enough dialogue data for some much larger studies. 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I am looking for articles dealing with theoretical and practical methods of the teaching of literature and/or culture, how technology can be used for the teaching of literature/culture, student attitudes towards literature/culture, the role of literature in various disciplines, how culture can influence the learning process, the future of literary/cultural studies, ethical issues concerning the teaching of literature/culture, and the assessment of literary/cultural learning. http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/win0222.htm The articles should be 1500-3000 words long. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of our journal, no single format or manuscript style is required. The articles may be submitted by MS Word or postal mail. For submission information, go to the following URL: http://www.higher-ed.org/AEQ/rufen1.htm Rebecca L. Chism, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies 109 Satterfield Hall Kent State University Kent, OH 44242 rlchism@ kent.edu http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/edprch.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE Sat Sep 20 12:14:22 2003 From: W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE (W. Schulze) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:14:22 +0200 Subject: Personal Pronoun Message-ID: Gilles Authier schrieb: > Dear All > > I d like to have this question forwarded through Funknet : > > Does anybody have instances of Personal Pronoun systems where a 1st > person plural exclusive is distinct of a 1st person plural inclusive > AND this 1 person plural inclusive serves also as the 2d person > plural. That is, two forms, with the repartition "we excl." distinct > of "we incl. = you plural". > Perhaps Gilles should make clear whether the language at issue knows another option for the 2pl, for instance something like a 2pl exclusive (excluding the first person or locutor). For instance, the Borch dialect of Rutul (East Caucasian, Lezgian) has the opposition /vu%q%na"r/ (% = pharyngealization) 'you (pl.) with us' vs. /we^%/ (e^ = schwa) 'you without us' (note that in this dialect, the 2pl. exclusive comes close to the first person plural exclusive (/yu%q%na"r/), but not to the inclusive (/yanur/)). Most likely, the two exlusive forms are marked for a 'privative' element (/-q%-na"r/) that excludes the 'second person' in role swapping. The merger you have mentioned reminds me of tendencies for instance in the Meheb dialect of Dargwa (East Caucasian) to use a focus particle (/-ra/) to mark the first person in assertions, whereas it marks the second person in questions, compare (nu) quli-w le-w-ra (I) home:loc-cl:I be-cl:I-foc:1sg 'I am at home' (h^u) quli-w le-w-ra-w (you) home:loc-cl:I be-cl:I-foc:2sg-Q 'Are you at home?' In other words, modality discriminates the two communicative referents, not morphology. This observation is related to the well-known distribution of personhood: In a standard corpus, the 1sg/pl usually occurs in assertions ('indicative'), whereas the 2sg/pl is typical in modal constructions (questions, imperatives, inferentials etc.). It may well be that the distribution Gilles has mentioned is related to the same functional mechanism: If we read the inclusive as a cluster 'I+you', we may assume that its rendering as a 1pl:incl is linked to assertions (focusing on the 'I'-component), whereas in modal construction, the focus lies on the 'you'-component resulting in a 2pl:incl. Hence, it would perhaps be wise to check the constructional types into which Gilles' pronoun(s) are textually embedded. Things may be different, if Gilles' data do not show any 'true' 2pl (exclusive). In this case, the above mentioned distribution would not work. Hope that helps a bit, Wolfgang -- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulze Institut f?r Allgemeine und Typologische Sprachwissenschaft - General Linguistics and Language Typology - Dept. II - Kommunikation und Sprachen F 13/14 - Universitaet M?nchen Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 D-80539 Muenchen Tel.: ++49-(0)89-2180-2486 / -5343 Fax: ++49-(0)89-2180-5345 Email: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Web: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/ From torodd.kinn at LILI.UIB.NO Mon Sep 22 05:53:56 2003 From: torodd.kinn at LILI.UIB.NO (Torodd Kinn) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:53:56 +0100 Subject: Book: Academic discourse Message-ID: Dear Funknet-subscribers, If you are interested in academic discourse, take a look at the following site: http://www.novus.no It announces the publication of the book "Academic discourse. Multidisciplinary approaches", edited by Kjersti Flottum and Francois Rastier. Regards, Torodd Kinn From francisco.ruiz at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES Thu Sep 25 16:36:21 2003 From: francisco.ruiz at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES (Francisco Jose Ruiz De Mendoza Ibanez) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:36:21 +0100 Subject: ARCL- Call for contributions Message-ID: [Please, circulate. We apologize for multiple postings] Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCOLA) John Benjamins Publishing Company (www.benjamins.com) Edited by Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza University of La Rioja, Logro?o Associate Editors Carlos Inchaurralde (University of Zaragoza) Sandra Pe?a Cervel (National University of Distance Education) Lorena P?rez Hern?ndez (University of la Rioja) Jes?s S?nchez (University of C?rdoba) The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective. Fruitful debate is encouraged with neighboring academic disciplines as well as with other approaches to language study, particularly functionally-oriented ones. The Editor invites submissions for Vol. 2 (2004). Submissions should be received before December 31st, 2003. 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From bergs at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de Mon Sep 29 11:49:59 2003 From: bergs at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de (Alex Bergs) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:49:59 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers: The Peterborough Chronicle Panel Message-ID: +++ CALL FOR PAPERS +++ The Peterborough Chronicle Panel (ICEHL 13, Vienna, August 23-28, 2004) The Peterborough Chronicle Panel is concerned with a variety of linguistic and other approaches to the mid-twelfth-century manuscript 'E' of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, better known as the 'Peterborough Chronicle' (PC). The panel will be organized in connection with the 13th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at the University of Vienna next August. CALL FOR PAPERS The PC is an outstanding example of very early Middle English and as such known to practically everyone teaching the history of English. It continues to be a valuable source of data for many historical linguists and philologists, especially those interested in the transition from Old to Middle English. Its linguistic structures and phenomena on the phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, orthographic, and discourse level have not ceased to attract the attention of historical linguists. We believe it is now time for a conference workshop dedicated solely to this manuscript, its language and its historical embedding. The objective of the panel is to bring together scholars working on various aspects of the PC and inform the audience about current issues in their work. We invite 20-minute papers dealing with any aspect of the language or history of the Peterborough Chronicle, with emphasis on the post-Conquest entries. The perspective may be either research-oriented or reflect the use of the PC as teaching material at university level. 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The goal of this conference is to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue. Many of the relevant disciplines have made highly significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advances during the last decade. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, cognitive and neurosciences, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in the language sciences. Topics include but are not limited to: * Biological and cultural evolution and language * Comparative study of communication systems * Cognitive and cultural schematization in language * Emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny * Language in multi-modal communication * Language and normativity * Language and thought, emotion and consciousness International Organizing Committee * Carmen Guarddon Anelo, Departamento de Filologias Extranjeras y sus Lingisticas, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain * Raphael Berthele, Departement fur Germanistik, Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland * Maria Cristobal, Department of English Philology I. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain * Iraide Ibarretxe, Department of English Philology, University of Deusto / Department of Basque Philology, University of the Basque Country, Spain * Jordan Zlatev, Department of Linguistics Lund University / Department of Philosophy and Linguistics, Umea University, Sweden Local Organizing Committee, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, England * Mike Fluck * Karl Nunkoosing * Vasu Reddy * Chris Sinha * Vera da Silva * Joerg Zinken Deadlines One page abstracts for 30-minute presentations should be submitted to Jordan Zlatev (jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se) by January 15, 2004. Notification of acceptance by March 15, 2004. Abstracts will be reviewed by an International Scientific Committee, membership to be announced in the second call for papers. Chris Sinha Professor of Psychology of Language Head of Department of Psychology King Henry Building, King Henry I Street Portsmouth PO1 2DY Tel. +44 (0)2392 84 6312 Fax +44 (0)2392 84 6300 From c.tiberius at SURREY.AC.UK Tue Sep 30 13:15:52 2003 From: c.tiberius at SURREY.AC.UK (Carole Tiberius) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:15:52 +0100 Subject: FYI: The Surrey Database of Agreement Message-ID: The Surrey Database of Agreement The Surrey Morphology Group announces the availability of another typological database, searchable online at http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk. The Surrey Database of Agreement encodes detailed information on agreement in fifteen genetically diverse languages. For each language, agreement is defined in terms of controllers, targets, domains, categories and conditions. The database contains pointers to examples illustrating each instance of agreement in a particular language. In addition, there are language reports describing the languages in the database, giving sources and enabling the user to see how decisions were made. The database holds extensive data on a small sample of languages and is intended mainly for typological investigation rather than for statistical use. Those primarily involved were Dunstan Brown, Greville Corbett, Carole Tiberius and Julia Barron with Nick Evans and Marianne Mithun as project consultants. Other scholars also generously contributed their time and expertise, and we are extremely grateful to them. The construction of the database was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) under grant number R000238228. A bibliography of agreement is available at: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/projects/agreement/agreement_bib.htm. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: