6.1030, Qs: Lab equipment, Parsing v2 lgs, Etymology

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1030. Mon Jul 31 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  105
 
Subject: 6.1030, Qs: Lab equipment, Parsing v2 lgs, Etymology
 
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Date:  Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:37:53 +0200
From:  fme at uevora.pt (Francisco Mira Espada)
Subject:  Lab equipment
 
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Date:  Mon, 31 Jul 1995 21:12:40 +1900
From:  beatrice at zora.ling.nwu.edu (Beatrice Santorini)
Subject:  parsing preference in v2 languages
 
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Date:  Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:00:00 CDT
From:  george.huttar at SIL.ORG (George Huttar 709 2400)
Subject:  multiple etymological sources in one domain
 
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Date:  Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:37:53 +0200
From:  fme at uevora.pt (Francisco Mira Espada)
Subject:  Lab equipment
 
At the University of EVORA (PORTUGAL) we are trying to establish a
laboratory of linguistics. We wonder if anyone could give information
about useful material for such a laboratory:equipment, hardware and
software.
Thanks in advance.
 
Francisco de Assis Mira Espada
Universidade de Evora
Departamento de Linguistica e Literaturas
Apartado 94
7001 Evora Codex
e mail : fme at evunix.uevora.pt
 
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Date:  Mon, 31 Jul 1995 21:12:40 +1900
From:  beatrice at zora.ling.nwu.edu (Beatrice Santorini)
Subject:  parsing preference in v2 languages
 
It has been claimed (incorrectly) that a German sentence with
nominative/accusative case syncretism like (1) is unambiguous, with the
clause-initial noun phrase construed as the subject.
 
(1)  Die         Tochter  hat die         Mutter gek"usst.
     the-nom/acc daughter has the-nom/acc mother kissed
     allegedly only SVO: The daughter kissed the mother.
     allegedly not OVS:  The mother kissed the daughter.
 
Although (1) is in fact ambiguous, the SVO interpretation does seem to be
preferred over the OVS interpretation, at least in out-of-the-blue
contexts.  Can anyone steer me to a discussion of such examples (in German
or any other verb-second language) in the parsing literature?
 
Many thanks,
Beatrice Santorini
b-santorini at nwu.edu
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Date:  Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:00:00 CDT
From:  george.huttar at SIL.ORG (George Huttar 709 2400)
Subject:  multiple etymological sources in one domain
 
    I'm looking for examples of languages in which, within one lexical
    domain, some lexemes come from one language source and some from
    another.  For example, in English kin terms, almost all the lexemes are
    from a Germanic source --e.g., mother, father, sister, brother; but the
    grand in grandmother and grandfather is from Romance.  Another example
    would be English's Germanic lexemes for domestic animals "on the hoof",
    but French-derived ones for their meat (pork, veal, beef).
 
    Thanks.  If there is sufficient interest, I'll post a summary.
 
    George L. Huttar                            7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd.
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    huttar at sil.org                              U. S. A.
 
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