7.894, Qs: Recording equipment, Gerunds in Turkish, Relative clauses

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-894. Fri Jun 14 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  116
 
Subject: 7.894, Qs: Recording equipment, Gerunds in Turkish, Relative clauses
 
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Date:  Thu, 13 Jun 1996 15:22:17 EDT
From:  GLICK at vassar.edu (Douglas J. Glick)
Subject:  advice on recording equipment
 
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Date:  Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:06:13 +0700
From:  CICHY%PLEARN.BITNET at plearn.edu.pl (Dariusz Cichocki)
Subject:  Gerunds in Turkish
 
3)
Date:  Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:55:06 +0200
From:  iaramon at usc.es ("J. Ramon Varela Perez")
Subject:  Query on participle relative clauses
 
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Date:  Thu, 13 Jun 1996 15:22:17 EDT
From:  GLICK at vassar.edu (Douglas J. Glick)
Subject:  advice on recording equipment
 
 
Hi. I am writing on behalf of a colleague who is about to spend the
year in Italy. She is looking for advice on good recording
equipment. Primarily she intends on eliciting personal narratives in
face-to-face interviews in relatively quiet settings. She also
foresees the possibility of wanting to record public rituals. She
would like the equipment to be portable and light as she would like to
carry it around with her quite often. Good quality and high
dependability are important to her. Finally, she would also like to
hear about preferences for micro- or normal size cassettes.
 
Any model suggestions or general advice will be appreciated. I will forward
all responses to her. Thank you,
 
 
Douglas J. Glick                           glick at vassar.edu
Department of Anthropology                 (914) 437-5504 - Office
Maildrop 242                               (914) 437-7287 - FAX
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-6198
 
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Date:  Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:06:13 +0700
From:  CICHY%PLEARN.BITNET at plearn.edu.pl (Dariusz Cichocki)
Subject:  Gerunds in Turkish
 
      Dear Colleagues,
 
    I would like to contact to anybody who is interested in gerunds
(converba) in modern Turkish ora in Turkic languages. I am specially
interested in gerunds that coordinate two subjects, although they are
definede as strictli subordinated to finite verb in sentence. This
subject - I suppose - is also connected with the structure of turkic
sentence (I try to describe turkish realative phrases). I will be very
grateful if you contact me directly.
   cichy at plearn.edu.pl
 
   Thank you in advance,
 
                                              Dariusz Cichocki
                                                  Warsaw University Poland
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Date:  Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:55:06 +0200
From:  iaramon at usc.es ("J. Ramon Varela Perez")
Subject:  Query on participle relative clauses
 
Dear Linguists,
 
This is a query about nonfinite relative clauses in English headed by
-ing/-ed participles (The man selling flowers came yesterday; The
Parliament, built in 1812, is to be demolished soon). As it is, this
seems to be a less explicit way of postmodifying nouns in English than
by means of finite relative clauses proper, because nonfinite verbal
forms lack explicit markers of tense/aspect/modality. On the other
hand, they seem to be helpful as a means of syntactic compression.
 
The problem is, I have not found much in the bibliography dealing with
these constructions. So could any of you direct me towards the most
updated research on this issue? I'm interested both in the syntactic
analyses proposed for these cosntructions and in their diverse
functions in English discourse.
 
Thank you in anticipation
Xose Ramon Varela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Galicia
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