8.1718, FYI: Bilingual Concordancing Tool, Language Typology
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Subject: 8.1718, FYI: Bilingual Concordancing Tool, Language Typology
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:39:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliott Macklovitch <macklovi at IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: TransSearch
2)
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:03:14 +0100
From: Bernhard Hiegl <lingtyp at goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Subject: 6th DGfS-Summer School 1998: Language Typology
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:39:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliott Macklovitch <macklovi at IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: TransSearch
Your correspondents may be interested in trying out TransSearch, the
RALI's bilingual concordancing tool, which is accessible via the Web, free
of charge, at the following URL:
http://www-rali.iro.umontreal.ca/TransSearch/
This Web version of TransSearch allows you to query a database composed
of seven years of Parliamentary debates (the Canadian Parliament's Hansard,
1986-1993), or approximately 100 million words of English-French translation.
You simply submit a problematic word or expression in one language and
TransSearch retrieves all its occurrences in the database - WITH THE
TRANSLATION DISPLAYED ALONGSIDE EACH OCCURRENCE IN CONTEXT. With TransSearch,
it's as though you had a group of highly qualified Parliamentary translators
at your personal disposal and could ask them the following question: "Have you
ever seen this word or expression; and if so, how did you translate it?"
Of course, the domain of Parliamentary debates may not always be
relevant for the translation of technical or other highly specialized texts.
Nevertheless, for general problems of English-French translation - or for
simply surmounting a case of writer's block - TransSearch can very often
provide invaluable suggestions. In my (necessarily partial) opinion, it's
a veritable goldmine for translators.
I encourage you to give TransSearch a try. If you find that TransSearch
would be a useful resource for, may I suggest that you add a link to it on your
own remarkable Web page.
Should you have any further questions about TransSearch, please do
not hesitate to contact me.
Elliott Macklovitch
Laboratoire RALI
Universite de Montreal
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:03:14 +0100
From: Bernhard Hiegl <lingtyp at goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Subject: 6th DGfS-Summer School 1998: Language Typology
6th DGfS-Summer School 1998: \132Language Typology\147
from August, 31 - September, 11 1998 at the Johannes
Gutenberg-University Mainz
Prof. Dr. Walter Bisang / Bernhard Hiegl M.A.
The sixth Summer School of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) will
take place at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz from August, 31
to September, 11 1998.
1. Contents
14 courses of 2 hours a day from Monday to Friday
Plenary discussions every day plus distinguished guest speakers
Participation will be certified. The number of credits at the home
university of individual participants is, however, subject to the
individual regulations at the home universities in question. No
guarantees can be provided in any way by our institute.
Lecturers/Courses:
Courses entitled in German will be held in German; courses entitled in
English will be held in English
-Auer, Peter (Hamburg): Sprachtypologie und Phonologie (Language
typology and phonology)
-Bisang, Walter (Mainz): Grammatikalisierung (Grammaticalization)
-Cinque, Guglielmo (Venice): Formal grammar and typology
-Comrie, Bernard (California): The syntax and typology of adverbs and
Tense/Mood/Modality/Aspect
-Corbett, Greville (Surrey): Typology of gender systems and number
systems
-Croft, William (Manchester): Typology and cognition
-Foley, William (Sidney): Comparative grammar of Papuan languages
-Haspelmath, Martin (Bamberg): Morphologische Typologie (Morphological
typology)
-Kornfilt, Jaklin (Syracuse): Theoretical perspectives in syntactic
change
-Lehmann, Christian (Bielefeld): Typologie des Yukatekischen (Typology
of Yucatec)
-Plank, Frans (Aarhus, DK) und Lahiri, Aditi (Konstanz): Co-variation of
phonology, morphology, and syntax? The prospects for holistic typology
-Siewierska, Anna (Lancaster): Word order typology: synchrony and
diachrony
-Stassen, Leon (Nijmegen): Typology as a reductionist method
-Stolz, Thomas (Bremen): Sprachliche Konvergenz: Areale und Typologie
(Linguistic convergence: areals and typology)
Our distinguished guest speakers are:
-Haider, Hubert (Salzburg): Sprachvergleich in der Formalen Linguistik
(Language comparison in formal linguistics)
-Johanson, Lars (Mainz): Aspect
-Ramat, Paolo (Pavia): Sprachliche Kategorien und Kategorisierungen
-Van der Auwera, Johan (Antwerpen): Areality in language typology (with
special reference to the problem of Standard Average European languages)
Every day, there will be plenary discussions of approximately one hour
with respect to recent developments in the research fields of the
lecturers.
A more detailed schedule will be published in near future in our
homepage! (see end of this leaflet)
However, it has already been determined that the courses will be
assigned to three timeblocks. The planned assignments to the individual
blocks look like follows:
10:45 - 12:15 Auer/Corbett/Comrie/Siewierska
13:45 - 15:15 Cinque/Croft/Foley/Haspelmath/Stolz
15:30 - 17:00 Bisang/Kornfilt/Lehmann/Plank+Lahiri/Stassen
2. Costs
-Students and Persons without income:DM 280/350*(DGfS-Member:DM
252/315*)
-University Employees and Persons with income:DM 560/650*(DGfS-Member:DM
504/585*)
-Participants from `countries with low salaries\180 have to pay half of the
students fees.
* = Participants fee after June, 30 1998.
Grants:
The German Linguistic Society will pay tuition fees for maximally 20
participants to support particularly qualified and promising young
linguists. Selections will be made by the program committee (W:Bisang,
U.Demske, E.K\246nig, G.Wurzel) on the basis of track records and the
income of applicants (no more than DM 18.000,-/year). Please, send
applications to the local organizer by March 31 1998.
Walter Bisang
Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\228t Mainz
Institut f\252r Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
D-55099 Mainz
3. Accomodation
There are accomodation possibilities on Campus at very reasonable prices
(approximately 100 beds):
-1 bed in a double room: approx. DM 170,-- for 2 weeks +deposit of DM
50,--
-1 bed in a single room: approx. DM 210,-- for 2 weeks +deposit of DM
50,--
The assignment follows after application in chronological order of
requests.
Mediation of hotel rooms is also possible.
4. Application/Information
DGfS-Summer School
Attn.: Mr. Bernhard Hiegl
Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\228t Mainz
Institut f\252r Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft FB 14.20
D-55099 Mainz, Germany
Phone/Fax: +49 (0)6131 / 39-3980
e-mail: lingtyp at mail.uni-mainz.de
www: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~lingtyp (application form is available
here)
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