7.342, Qs: Machine translation, Pre IP heads, Usage of MUST

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-342. Mon Mar 4 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  100
 
Subject: 7.342, Qs: Machine translation, Pre IP heads, Usage of MUST
 
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Date:  02 Mar 1996 00:00:00
From:  ips2092%saipa00.bitnet at interbit.cren.net (Harold E. "Skip" Wilcox)
Subject:  English-Arabic/Arabic-English machine translation
 
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Date:  Sun, 03 Mar 1996 12:15:12 CST
From:  annabel at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk (Annabel Cormack)
Subject:  Q: pre IP heads
 
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Date:  Mon, 04 Mar 1996 13:06:14 +1000
From:  Debra.Ziegeler at arts.monash.edu.au
Subject:  Q: MUST again
 
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Date:  02 Mar 1996 00:00:00
From:  ips2092%saipa00.bitnet at interbit.cren.net (Harold E. "Skip" Wilcox)
Subject:  English-Arabic/Arabic-English machine translation
 
 
Does anyone know of any English-Arabic and/or Arabic/English
translation software?  Pls respond directly to me.
 
Harold E. "Skip" Wilcox, Ph.D.
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Date:  Sun, 03 Mar 1996 12:15:12 CST
From:  annabel at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk (Annabel Cormack)
Subject:  Q: pre IP heads
 
There are languages with the equivalent of _who that_, and languages
with the equivalent of _if that_.  I believe there are languages where
all three pre-IP heads may occur in sequence, perhaps in a complement
clause as in
 
   I don't know [whom if that John saw _]
 
Can anyone tell me of such a language?
 
Annabel Cormack.
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Date:  Mon, 04 Mar 1996 13:06:14 +1000
From:  Debra.Ziegeler at arts.monash.edu.au
Subject:  Q: MUST again
 
Dear Subscribers,
 
Here's another question for all modal maniacs. A sentence very much
like the following was recently emitted from the bowels of
bureaucracy, inadvertently making its way onto the Home Page of a
local university administration Web service. The sentence aroused my
curiosity, and I have been pondering over it ever since. it went
something like this:
 
All forms must have been submitted by February 16.
 
The reason I was pondering over it was that it appeared prior to
February 16. My personal intuitions would have constrained the use of
MUST in such a construction, mainly because it offers a deontic
interpretation (having come from an administrator's office!), and the
(usual) interpretation of MUST + HAVE + past participle could be
assumed to be only epistemic. I was wondering what other subscribers
thought about the use of MUST used deontically in a future perfect
construction such as this - deviant? or ambiguous?
 
If this arouses enough enthusiasm, a summary of responses will follow.
 
Debra Ziegeler
Monash University, Australia
 
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