7.376, Qs: Occitan & Gascon, Pinker, Adjective ordering in English

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Subject: 7.376, Qs: Occitan & Gascon, Pinker, Adjective ordering in English
 
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Date:  Wed, 06 Mar 1996 03:03:47 EST
From:  Joanfrancs at aol.com
Subject:  Attn: Romance languages specialists - Occitan & Gascon information
 
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Date:  Thu, 07 Mar 1996 16:57:17 GMT
From:  rmallott at percep.demon.co.uk (rmallott)
Subject:  Pinker The Language Instinct
 
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Date:  Sat, 09 Mar 1996 19:11:56 GMT
From:  ben at ling.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge)
Subject:  Adjective ordering in English
 
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Date:  Wed, 06 Mar 1996 03:03:47 EST
From:  Joanfrancs at aol.com
Subject:  Attn: Romance languages specialists - Occitan & Gascon information
 
 
Hello,
 
I put on the www the following information, about projects I'm
involved in.  Maybe you could have a look at them and feed me back
some data.
 
About the Gascon dialect, DiGaM project, led by J. Lafita, is
readchable at:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3068/
e-mail:
digam at innet.meta.fr
 
About the Occitan language, my pages "Aqui parlan occitan" are
at:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2085/
(with some short lexics)
 
The Estudis Occitans review is at:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2687/oceo00.html
(will be expanded in April)
 
For all these data, I'm looking for mirror sites in Europe and in Asia.
 
Please let me know if you can help, and feel free to e-mail me
comments ONLY AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESSES:
 
blancjf at ibm.net
 
OR
 
jfblanc at svmnet.meta.fr
 
Yours truly,
 
JF Blanc
 
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Date:  Thu, 07 Mar 1996 16:57:17 GMT
From:  rmallott at percep.demon.co.uk (rmallott)
Subject:  Pinker The Language Instinct
 
 
 Has there been discussion of The Language Instinct on the list? If
so, could someone refer me to the archive.  If not, is the general
view that Pinker's ideas are sound and useful - or that, as I am
inclined to think, they are open to a number of criticisms ?
 
 
Robin Allott     email:  rmallott at percep.demon.co.uk
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Date:  Sat, 09 Mar 1996 19:11:56 GMT
From:  ben at ling.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge)
Subject:  Adjective ordering in English
 
I'm looking for references that discuss reasons for adjectives being
ordered in English - preferably syntactic ones (and ideally in a GB
framework).
 
e.g., why can we say:
 
	  a little red book
 
but rarely
	? a red little book
 
 
I'm also interested to find out if other languages follow the same
pattern. I've looked at Dixon 1982 and Dixon 1990, which examines what
exactly the ordering is, grouping adjectives into semantic classes,
but it doesn't discuss reasons for the ordering. Can anyone help?
 
Thanks,
Ben Hambidge, Edinburgh University.
<ben at ling.ed.ac.uk>
 
 
Refs: Dixon, R: "Where have all the adjectives gone?", Mouton 1982
 
      Dixon, R: "A new appraoch to English grammar", Clarendon
			Press, 1990.
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