LINGUIST List: Vol-8-414. Sat Mar 22 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.
Subject: 8.414, Qs: Syntactic doubling, Case, Ancient lgs
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:11:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mariapaola D'Imperio" <dimperio at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Syntactic doubling (RS)
2)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 21:41:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Ken Hyde <kenny at UDel.Edu>
Subject: Morpho-syntax of Case
3)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 10:31 EST
From: joel at exc.com (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Ancient lg pronunciation
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:11:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mariapaola D'Imperio" <dimperio at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Syntactic doubling (RS)
Dear list members,
I've been researching for a while on a topic of Italian phonology that
goes under the name of RS (Raddoppiamento Sintattico). This is a
phenomenon found in Central and Southern varieties of Italian
involving the gemination of the first consonant of the second word in
a two-word sequence.
It appears that the topic has been widely researched from a syntactic,
historical and a phonological point of view. I already possess much of
the relevant literature up to the end of the 1980s, but I'd be really
grateful if you could provide me with any references of recent work on
the topic or give me suggestions about where to look for more
information.
I'll also post a summary of the replies.
Mariapaola D'Imperio
dimperio at ling.ohio-state.edu
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 21:41:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Ken Hyde <kenny at UDel.Edu>
Subject: Morpho-syntax of Case
I am currently investigating the morphosyntactic nature of Case and
would be interested in any suggestions from others in the field with
articles and books that you have found particularly useful or
interesting, either on a theoretical level or on empirical level
(interesting data, etc). In particular, I am interested in getting an
idea of what papers/ideas are currently considered to be "important"
by those linguists who are working on Case, particularly papers that
may not have appeared in indexed publications but are still in limited
circulation and heuristically valuable.
I will, of course, post a summary of the response to this request to the
list.
Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to give.
Kenneth Allen Hyde | No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife
Univ. of Delaware | between the shoulder blades will seriously
Dept. of Linguistics | cramp his style -- Old Jhereg proverb
kenny at Udel.Edu | A mind is a terrible toy to waste! -- Me
**http://www.udel.edu/kenny/ken.html or .../kenny/green.silences.html**
-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 10:31 EST
From: joel at exc.com (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Ancient lg pronunciation
One often reads about vowel quality in ancient Greek, or Latin, or
Hebrew, etc. But with tape recordings, native speakers and synchronic
grammatical descriptions all lacking, how do we know how those
languages were pronounced?
I have looked for answers to this question in all of the usual places,
and while many people make use of the results, no one seems to note
(or know) how we get the results. For example, in the realm of
Hebrew, data from Greek are used, without noting how the Greek data
are obtained. In general, the pattern seems to be to use data from
other languages of the time, with each specific discipline content to
assume that others know what they are talking about. But no one
addresses the problem that all of this reasoning is circular.
Thanks.
-Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
(joel at exc.com)
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