From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sat Jun 1 00:44:36 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 20:44:36 -0400 Subject: [language] Elamite Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> I just read in one book that a dialect(!) of Elamite was spoken as late as circa 1,000 CE in Khuzistan. Is that true? -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sat Jun 1 01:59:36 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 21:59:36 -0400 Subject: [language] IE branches Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> There is an article in the 25-May-2002 issue of Science News. It shows Greek branching off first. Then Slavic, then Albanian. -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sat Jun 1 13:04:33 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:04:33 -0400 Subject: [language] Cooking, and How It Slew the Beast Within] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> New York Times Cooking, and How It Slew the Beast Within By NATALIE ANGIER Among virtually every culture on earth, anything worth doing is best done over dinner. Bring out a nicely braised roast, a hot loaf of bread and a slice of, oh, lemon chess pie, and rifts can be healed, pacts sealed, loves revealed. Even the condemned do not want to leave this world without one really divine last supper. In the view of Dr. Richard W. Wrangham, a professor of anthropology at Harvard, the preparing, cooking and sociable eating of food are so central to the human experience that the culinary arts may well be what made us human in the first place. Dr. Wrangham, who is renowned for his studies of chimpanzees, and of male aggression generally, proposes that the use of fire to cook food could date back almost 2 million years, a good 1.5 million years before the timing traditionally accorded it. He also suggests that the capacity to cook food could explain a wide array of hominid features, including a large brain, small teeth, a relative modesty of size difference, or sexual dimorphism, between men and women, and a tendency to pair up and put up with each other far longer than most primates do. Full text http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/28/science/social/28COOK.html ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Mon Jun 3 14:14:16 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:14:16 -0400 Subject: [language] Table of Contents Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- I wonder if there has been a review of this book yet. http://www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz/jen/documents/contents.html -- M. 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You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Thu Jun 6 02:07:49 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:07:49 -0400 Subject: [language] (no subject) Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- Something of interest for those who still think about historical linguistics. -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Hubey) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:08:21 -0400 Subject: [language] Here is another Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sicomp.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 328754 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. 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It may be a family tree, but it is definitely a minimal spanning tree and is easy to apply to any family, unlike the others whose methods do not seem to be given anywhere. -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IE-trees.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 63877 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Fri Jun 7 01:10:03 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 21:10:03 -0400 Subject: [language] Language: Scientifically speaking Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Language: Scientifically speaking http://www.nature.com/nature/links/020606/020606-5.html In a brief review Nowak et al. take on the task of covering 40 years of computational linguistics - the science combining the methods of linguistics and computer science to study language, particularly its evolution. Their main conclusion is that there is a logical necessity of genetically determined components of human language. The field is notably contentious, and any new synthesis is likely to stimulate heated debate. Computational and evolutionary aspects of language MARTIN A. NOWAK, NATALIA L. KOMAROVA & PARTHA NIYOGI Nature 417, 611-617 (6 June 2002) Language is our legacy. It is the main evolutionary contribution of humans, and perhaps the most interesting trait that has emerged in the past 500 million years. Understanding how darwinian evolution gives rise to human language requires the integration of formal language theory, learning theory and evolutionary dynamics. Formal language theory provides a mathematical description of language and grammar. Learning theory formalizes the task of language acquisition-it can be shown that no procedure can learn an unrestricted set of languages. Universal grammar specifies the restricted set of languages learnable by the human brain. Evolutionary dynamics can be formulated to describe the cultural evolution of language and the biological evolution of universal grammar. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v417/n6889/abs/nature00771_fs.html ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. 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Hubey) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 10:33:42 -0400 Subject: [language] Oxford Encyclopedia of Linguistics Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- http://kornai.com/MathLing/ -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sun Jun 9 14:44:50 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 10:44:50 -0400 Subject: [language] I don't recall if this was ever posted here Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> [DOC] On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Wayne Lawrence wrote: File Format: Microsoft Word 97 for Macintosh - View as HTML ... Afro-Asiatic (Egyptian, Akkadian, Hebrew, etc), Indo-European ... The work by Ringe [1992] and its ... than the one that works for IE ... Terek/ means ‘tree’ in KB and ... www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey/sumer.doc -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sun Jun 9 14:51:22 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 10:51:22 -0400 Subject: [language] Entropy Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Hubey) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [language] The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and ProbabilityBefore Pascal] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Journa of the American Medical Association Table of Contents - June 12, 2002 Vol 287, No. 22 pp - 2899-3034 http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n22/toc.html Books/History, Probability The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal by James Franklin, 497 pp, $55, ISBN 0-8018-6569-7, Baltimore, Md, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Frederick Butzen In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin, senior lecturer in mathematics at the University of New South Wales, tells the story of how people thought about evidence and likelihood in the years before Pascal and Fermat discovered how to compute probability. Because there are few areas of life in which people do not weigh likelihood and ponder evidence, The Science of Conjecture explores many out-of-the-way placesfrom astronomy to witch trials, from religious redemption to maritime insurance. Through them all, Franklin shows how thought sharpened over the centuries, to the point where Pascal and Fermat could raise the measurement of likelihood from an art to a science. Full text http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n22/ffull/jbk0612-1.html The Science of Conjecture : Evidence and Probability Before Pascal by James Franklin Hardcover: 600 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.32 x 9.70 x 6.38 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801865697; (June 2001) AMAZON - US http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801865697/darwinanddarwini/ AMAZON - UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801865697/humannaturecom/ >From Book News, Inc. This book examines the history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty and the historically developed consciousness of risk. It thus provides an analysis of the foundations of modern scientific inquiry. Franklin (mathematics, University of New South Wales) considers how renaissance judges, Catholic inquisitors, and juries evaluated evidence, how scientists weighed the reasons for and against particular theories, and how merchants counted shipwrecks to calculate insurance rates.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR Â-Stephen Stigler, University of Chicago, author of The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 "...An extraordinary work, a clearly written history of the ideas of evidence and of uncertainty before Pascal." Book Description Before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654, how did we make reliable predictions? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at the truth in cases where certainty was not attainable? In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin examines how judges, witch inquisitors, and juries evaluated evidence; scientists weighed reasons for and against scientific theories; and merchants counted shipwrecks to determine insurance rates. Sometimes this type of reasoning avoided numbers entirely, as in the legal standard of "proof beyond a reasonable doubt"; at other times it involved rough numerical estimates, as in gambling odds or the level of risk in chance events. The Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty. Everyone can take a rough account of risk, Franklin argues, but understanding the principles of probability and using them to improve performance is an immense task-a task that had to be learned over human history, just as we had to train ourselves to become aware of the principles of perspective. The theme of this study is the coming to consciousness of human understanding of risk. A well-reasoned and highly readable study, The Science of Conjecture makes an important contribution to intellectual history and the history of science. About the Author James Franklin is a senior lecturer in mathematics at the University of New South Wales. ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Wed Jun 12 16:41:50 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:41:50 -0400 Subject: [language] Syntax and Semantics Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> American Scientist Syntax and Semantics Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution. Ray Jackendoff. xx + 477 pp. Oxford University Press, 2002. $40. What is language for? A nonlinguist would probably reply, "For expressing meaning by means of sound (or gesture)." If this commonsense answer is right, we should expect semantics (the study of meaning) to be at the heart of linguistic theory. It comes as a surprise to most beginners in contemporary mainstream linguistics when they find that, instead, the central component of language is presented as syntax. Semantics is not even in second place; what comes next in respect to time devoted to it in linguistic curricula is phonology (the study of speech sounds). No wonder linguistics can seem such a dry discipline: The aspect of language that to a nonexpert seems most important, namely the substance of what it can convey, is downgraded in favor of the austere technicalities of conveyance. This is true not only of the Chomskyan approach that has been dominant since the 1960s, but also of the structuralist approaches that preceded it. Full text http://americanscientist.org/bookshelf/Leads02/02-07Lcarstairs-mccarthy.html Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff Hardcover: 496 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.24 x 9.84 x 7.04 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0198270127; (March 2002) AMAZON - US http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198270127/darwinanddarwini/ AMAZON - UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198270127/humannaturecom/ >From Library Journal Jackendoff (linguistics, Brandeis Univ.) tackles the substantial tasks of assessing where Noam Chomsky's foundation of research has led linguistics and reinterpreting his theory of universal grammar. While embracing many of Chomsky's ideas, Jackendoff proposes his own overall theory of language. His well-documented discussion covers "combinatoriality" (or grammar rules) and language processing, as well as lexical and phrasal semantics. Jackendoff's inquiry draws on and complements research in neuroscience, psychology, and biological evolution. For example, he examines working and long-term memory in language production and, most important, discusses phonology, syntax, and semantics as parallel, equally productive, or generative aspects of language. Like Lyle Jenkins (Biolinguistics: Exploring the Biology of Language, Cambridge Univ., 2000), he emphasizes connections between language and biology. Lacking a glossary and a list of the numerous abbreviations, this work is scholarly in approach and hence less accessible than works like Trevor Harely's broad, updated The Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory (Psychology Pr., 2001. 2d ed.). It is nevertheless a significant piece of scholarship and is highly recommended for academic libraries. Marianne Orme, Des Plaines P.L., IL Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Book Description Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve the cliche 'this should be read by every researcher in the field,'" writes Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, "But Ray Jackendoff's Foundations of Language does." Foundations of Language offers a radically new understanding of how language, the brain, and perception intermesh. The book renews the promise of early generative linguistics: that language can be a valuable entree into understanding the human mind and brain. The approach is remarkably interdisciplinary. Behind its innovations is Jackendoff's fundamental proposal that the creativity of language derives from multiple parallel generative systems linked by interface components. this shift in basic architecture makes possible a radical reconception of mental grammar and how it is learned. As a consequence, Jackendoff is able to reintegrate linguistics with philosophy of mind, cognitive and developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and computational linguistics. Among the major topics treated are language processing, the relation of language to perception, the innateness of language, and the evolution of the language capacity, as well as more standard issues in linguistic theory such as the roles of syntax and the lexicon. In addition, Jackendoff offers a sophisticated theory of semantics that incorporates insights from philosophy of language, logic and formal semantics, lexical semantics of various stripes, cognitive grammar, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches, and the author's own conceptual semantics. Here then is the most fundamental contribution to linguistic theory in over three decades. ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sat Jun 1 00:44:36 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 20:44:36 -0400 Subject: [language] Elamite Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> I just read in one book that a dialect(!) of Elamite was spoken as late as circa 1,000 CE in Khuzistan. Is that true? -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sat Jun 1 01:59:36 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 21:59:36 -0400 Subject: [language] IE branches Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> There is an article in the 25-May-2002 issue of Science News. It shows Greek branching off first. Then Slavic, then Albanian. -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sat Jun 1 13:04:33 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:04:33 -0400 Subject: [language] Cooking, and How It Slew the Beast Within] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> New York Times Cooking, and How It Slew the Beast Within By NATALIE ANGIER Among virtually every culture on earth, anything worth doing is best done over dinner. Bring out a nicely braised roast, a hot loaf of bread and a slice of, oh, lemon chess pie, and rifts can be healed, pacts sealed, loves revealed. Even the condemned do not want to leave this world without one really divine last supper. In the view of Dr. Richard W. Wrangham, a professor of anthropology at Harvard, the preparing, cooking and sociable eating of food are so central to the human experience that the culinary arts may well be what made us human in the first place. Dr. Wrangham, who is renowned for his studies of chimpanzees, and of male aggression generally, proposes that the use of fire to cook food could date back almost 2 million years, a good 1.5 million years before the timing traditionally accorded it. He also suggests that the capacity to cook food could explain a wide array of hominid features, including a large brain, small teeth, a relative modesty of size difference, or sexual dimorphism, between men and women, and a tendency to pair up and put up with each other far longer than most primates do. Full text http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/28/science/social/28COOK.html ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Mon Jun 3 14:14:16 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:14:16 -0400 Subject: [language] Table of Contents Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- I wonder if there has been a review of this book yet. http://www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz/jen/documents/contents.html -- M. 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You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Thu Jun 6 02:07:49 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:07:49 -0400 Subject: [language] (no subject) Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- Something of interest for those who still think about historical linguistics. -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Hubey) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:08:21 -0400 Subject: [language] Here is another Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sicomp.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 328754 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. 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It may be a family tree, but it is definitely a minimal spanning tree and is easy to apply to any family, unlike the others whose methods do not seem to be given anywhere. -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IE-trees.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 63877 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Fri Jun 7 01:10:03 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 21:10:03 -0400 Subject: [language] Language: Scientifically speaking Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Language: Scientifically speaking http://www.nature.com/nature/links/020606/020606-5.html In a brief review Nowak et al. take on the task of covering 40 years of computational linguistics - the science combining the methods of linguistics and computer science to study language, particularly its evolution. Their main conclusion is that there is a logical necessity of genetically determined components of human language. The field is notably contentious, and any new synthesis is likely to stimulate heated debate. Computational and evolutionary aspects of language MARTIN A. NOWAK, NATALIA L. KOMAROVA & PARTHA NIYOGI Nature 417, 611-617 (6 June 2002) Language is our legacy. It is the main evolutionary contribution of humans, and perhaps the most interesting trait that has emerged in the past 500 million years. Understanding how darwinian evolution gives rise to human language requires the integration of formal language theory, learning theory and evolutionary dynamics. Formal language theory provides a mathematical description of language and grammar. Learning theory formalizes the task of language acquisition-it can be shown that no procedure can learn an unrestricted set of languages. Universal grammar specifies the restricted set of languages learnable by the human brain. Evolutionary dynamics can be formulated to describe the cultural evolution of language and the biological evolution of universal grammar. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v417/n6889/abs/nature00771_fs.html ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. 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Hubey) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 10:33:42 -0400 Subject: [language] Oxford Encyclopedia of Linguistics Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- http://kornai.com/MathLing/ -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sun Jun 9 14:44:50 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 10:44:50 -0400 Subject: [language] I don't recall if this was ever posted here Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> [DOC] On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Wayne Lawrence wrote: File Format: Microsoft Word 97 for Macintosh - View as HTML ... Afro-Asiatic (Egyptian, Akkadian, Hebrew, etc), Indo-European ... The work by Ringe [1992] and its ... than the one that works for IE ... Terek/ means ?tree? in KB and ... www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey/sumer.doc -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Sun Jun 9 14:51:22 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 10:51:22 -0400 Subject: [language] Entropy Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -------------- next part -------------- -- M. Hubey hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu /\/\/\/\//\/\/\/\/\/\/http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Hubey) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [language] The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and ProbabilityBefore Pascal] Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Journa of the American Medical Association Table of Contents - June 12, 2002 Vol 287, No. 22 pp - 2899-3034 http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n22/toc.html Books/History, Probability The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal by James Franklin, 497 pp, $55, ISBN 0-8018-6569-7, Baltimore, Md, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Frederick Butzen In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin, senior lecturer in mathematics at the University of New South Wales, tells the story of how people thought about evidence and likelihood in the years before Pascal and Fermat discovered how to compute probability. Because there are few areas of life in which people do not weigh likelihood and ponder evidence, The Science of Conjecture explores many out-of-the-way placesfrom astronomy to witch trials, from religious redemption to maritime insurance. Through them all, Franklin shows how thought sharpened over the centuries, to the point where Pascal and Fermat could raise the measurement of likelihood from an art to a science. Full text http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n22/ffull/jbk0612-1.html The Science of Conjecture : Evidence and Probability Before Pascal by James Franklin Hardcover: 600 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.32 x 9.70 x 6.38 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801865697; (June 2001) AMAZON - US http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801865697/darwinanddarwini/ AMAZON - UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801865697/humannaturecom/ >From Book News, Inc. This book examines the history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty and the historically developed consciousness of risk. It thus provides an analysis of the foundations of modern scientific inquiry. Franklin (mathematics, University of New South Wales) considers how renaissance judges, Catholic inquisitors, and juries evaluated evidence, how scientists weighed the reasons for and against particular theories, and how merchants counted shipwrecks to calculate insurance rates.Book News, Inc.?, Portland, OR ?-Stephen Stigler, University of Chicago, author of The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 "...An extraordinary work, a clearly written history of the ideas of evidence and of uncertainty before Pascal." Book Description Before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654, how did we make reliable predictions? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at the truth in cases where certainty was not attainable? In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin examines how judges, witch inquisitors, and juries evaluated evidence; scientists weighed reasons for and against scientific theories; and merchants counted shipwrecks to determine insurance rates. Sometimes this type of reasoning avoided numbers entirely, as in the legal standard of "proof beyond a reasonable doubt"; at other times it involved rough numerical estimates, as in gambling odds or the level of risk in chance events. The Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty. Everyone can take a rough account of risk, Franklin argues, but understanding the principles of probability and using them to improve performance is an immense task-a task that had to be learned over human history, just as we had to train ourselves to become aware of the principles of perspective. The theme of this study is the coming to consciousness of human understanding of risk. A well-reasoned and highly readable study, The Science of Conjecture makes an important contribution to intellectual history and the history of science. About the Author James Franklin is a senior lecturer in mathematics at the University of New South Wales. ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu From hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu Wed Jun 12 16:41:50 2002 From: hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu (H.M. Hubey) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:41:50 -0400 Subject: [language] Syntax and Semantics Message-ID: <><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><> American Scientist Syntax and Semantics Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution. Ray Jackendoff. xx + 477 pp. Oxford University Press, 2002. $40. What is language for? A nonlinguist would probably reply, "For expressing meaning by means of sound (or gesture)." If this commonsense answer is right, we should expect semantics (the study of meaning) to be at the heart of linguistic theory. It comes as a surprise to most beginners in contemporary mainstream linguistics when they find that, instead, the central component of language is presented as syntax. Semantics is not even in second place; what comes next in respect to time devoted to it in linguistic curricula is phonology (the study of speech sounds). No wonder linguistics can seem such a dry discipline: The aspect of language that to a nonexpert seems most important, namely the substance of what it can convey, is downgraded in favor of the austere technicalities of conveyance. This is true not only of the Chomskyan approach that has been dominant since the 1960s, but also of the structuralist approaches that preceded it. Full text http://americanscientist.org/bookshelf/Leads02/02-07Lcarstairs-mccarthy.html Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff Hardcover: 496 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.24 x 9.84 x 7.04 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0198270127; (March 2002) AMAZON - US http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198270127/darwinanddarwini/ AMAZON - UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198270127/humannaturecom/ >From Library Journal Jackendoff (linguistics, Brandeis Univ.) tackles the substantial tasks of assessing where Noam Chomsky's foundation of research has led linguistics and reinterpreting his theory of universal grammar. While embracing many of Chomsky's ideas, Jackendoff proposes his own overall theory of language. His well-documented discussion covers "combinatoriality" (or grammar rules) and language processing, as well as lexical and phrasal semantics. Jackendoff's inquiry draws on and complements research in neuroscience, psychology, and biological evolution. For example, he examines working and long-term memory in language production and, most important, discusses phonology, syntax, and semantics as parallel, equally productive, or generative aspects of language. Like Lyle Jenkins (Biolinguistics: Exploring the Biology of Language, Cambridge Univ., 2000), he emphasizes connections between language and biology. Lacking a glossary and a list of the numerous abbreviations, this work is scholarly in approach and hence less accessible than works like Trevor Harely's broad, updated The Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory (Psychology Pr., 2001. 2d ed.). It is nevertheless a significant piece of scholarship and is highly recommended for academic libraries. Marianne Orme, Des Plaines P.L., IL Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Book Description Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve the cliche 'this should be read by every researcher in the field,'" writes Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, "But Ray Jackendoff's Foundations of Language does." Foundations of Language offers a radically new understanding of how language, the brain, and perception intermesh. The book renews the promise of early generative linguistics: that language can be a valuable entree into understanding the human mind and brain. The approach is remarkably interdisciplinary. Behind its innovations is Jackendoff's fundamental proposal that the creativity of language derives from multiple parallel generative systems linked by interface components. this shift in basic architecture makes possible a radical reconception of mental grammar and how it is learned. As a consequence, Jackendoff is able to reintegrate linguistics with philosophy of mind, cognitive and developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and computational linguistics. Among the major topics treated are language processing, the relation of language to perception, the innateness of language, and the evolution of the language capacity, as well as more standard issues in linguistic theory such as the roles of syntax and the lexicon. In addition, Jackendoff offers a sophisticated theory of semantics that incorporates insights from philosophy of language, logic and formal semantics, lexical semantics of various stripes, cognitive grammar, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches, and the author's own conceptual semantics. Here then is the most fundamental contribution to linguistic theory in over three decades. ---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><> Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. You are currently subscribed to language as: language at listserv.linguistlist.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y at csam-lists.montclair.edu