6.954, Qs: Morphological process, Chinese, Etymology, Email address

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-954. Tue Jul 11 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  130
 
Subject: 6.954, Qs: Morphological process, Chinese, Etymology, Email address
 
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Date:  Sat, 08 Jul 1995 15:37:38 CDT
From:  fcosws at prairienet.org (Steven Schaufele)
Subject:  A (formerly) productive morphological process?
 
2)
Date:  Sat, 08 Jul 1995 22:30:21 BST
From:  sackmann at zedat.fu-berlin.de ("Robin Sackmann")
Subject:        Qs: Parts-of-Speech in Chinese
 
3)
Date:  Mon, 10 Jul 1995 13:47:29 CST
From:  cec74480 at acuvax.acu.edu
Subject:  Etymology
 
4)
Date:  Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:22:36 EDT
From:  bertinet at sns.it (Bertinetto)
Subject:  Tenny
 
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Date:  Sat, 08 Jul 1995 15:37:38 CDT
From:  fcosws at prairienet.org (Steven Schaufele)
Subject:  A (formerly) productive morphological process?
 
 
All my life i have been aware of a process of forming compounds (often
referring to geographical entities, ethnic groups, etc.) by means of a
`combining form', typically ending in -o, of the first member of the
compound, e.g., Anglo-Saxon, Afro-Asiatic, Dano-Norwegian.
 
Of late years, at least in `official' circles, i seem to be seeing a repu-
diation of this combining form. Whereas back in the 60's we occasionally
used the expression `Afro-American', this has been recently repudiated by
the community it refers to in favour of `African American'.  And while i
have been accustomed quite happily to refer to myself as a `Euro-American',
i have just this past week come across the (to my mind) much more cumber-
some usage `European American'.
 
Can anybody tell me anything about the history of this process?  Does it,
as i suspect, derive from the -o combining form so common in Greek-derived
words (e.g., morphology)?  And is it really dying out as a productive pro-
cess in English?
 
Thanks
Steven
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Dr. Steven Schaufele
712 West Washington
Urbana, IL  61801
217-344-8240
fcosws at prairienet.org
 
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Date:  Sat, 08 Jul 1995 22:30:21 BST
From:  sackmann at zedat.fu-berlin.de ("Robin Sackmann")
Subject:        Qs: Parts-of-Speech in Chinese
 
Dear linguists,
 
I am currently working on a paper about syntactic categories ('parts of
speech') in modern standard Chinese (putonghua resp. guoyu).
Therefore, I would be very grateful to users of LINGUIST for any references
to books and (recent) papers on this matter.
A bibliographical summary will be posted.
 
Many thanks in advance,
 
Robin Sackmann
FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN
Germany
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3)
Date:  Mon, 10 Jul 1995 13:47:29 CST
From:  cec74480 at acuvax.acu.edu
Subject:  Etymology
 
X-Personal_name: Craig Carroll
From: cec74480 at acuvax.acu.edu
Subject: Etymology
 
Does anyone know of a discussion list for etymology?  Also, where are
some resources on the internet for searching for the history of certain
words?  Please respond directly.  If there is enough interest, I will post
to the list.  thank you.
 
Craig Carroll
Abilene Texas
cec74480 at acuvax.acu.edu
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4)
Date:  Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:22:36 EDT
From:  bertinet at sns.it (Bertinetto)
Subject:  Tenny
 
Does anybody know the e-mail address of Carol Tenny?
The "Linguists" server in Amsterdam provides an MIT address, which is
apparently an old one.
Please answer to me directly: bertinet at sns.it
Thanks.
Pier Marco Bertinetto
Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore
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