9.1005, Qs: Valency, Palenquero, Sinhala & Okinawan

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1005. Mon Jul 6 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1005, Qs: Valency, Palenquero, Sinhala & Okinawan

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Date:  Thu, 2 Jul 1998 14:29:15 +0100 (WET DST)
From:  lawson <lawson at ids-mannheim.de>
Subject:  valency of nouns/nominalisation

2)
Date:  Fri, 3 Jul 1998 17:09:11 +0000
From:  "Ian Mackenzie" <i.e.mackenzie at newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject:  Palenquero

3)
Date:  Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:53:42 -0400
From:  Paul Hagstrom <hagstrom at MIT.EDU>
Subject:  Sinhala, Okinawan speakers?

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Date:  Thu, 2 Jul 1998 14:29:15 +0100 (WET DST)
From:  lawson <lawson at ids-mannheim.de>
Subject:  valency of nouns/nominalisation


Dear Colleagues,

I am preparing a comprehensive account of recent developments in the field
of "valency of nouns."  The account is to be published in the forthcoming
de Gruyter reference handbook on valency.  If you have worked in this area,
please pass on any information you have and if you would like to be quoted.

I understand "valency of nouns" in a rather broad sense, and I would like
to deal with related issues as "nominalisation" and "support verbs"
(Funktionsverbgefge) as far as valency issues are concerned.  Related
approaches (e.g., constraint grammar) are also welcome.

Yours sincerely,
Wolfgang Teubert
wolfgang.teubert at ids-mannheim.de

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Date:  Fri, 3 Jul 1998 17:09:11 +0000
From:  "Ian Mackenzie" <i.e.mackenzie at newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject:  Palenquero

Does anyone know whether either of the following constructions
occurs in the Caribbean creole Palenquero?:

(i) 'Predicate Cleft' (with duplication of the predicate), as in
Papiamentu 'Ta come mi ta come' (literally, in Spanish: 'Es comer
yo como'; that is (in idiomatic English), 'What I'm doing is eating')

(ii) 'Resumptive pronoun' when the prepositional object of a verb is
focused and brought to the front of a sentence, as in
Papiamentu 'Ta Wito e ke papia kune awe' (literally, in Spanish, 'Es
Wito el quiere hablar con el hoy'; that is (in idiomatic English),
'It's Wito he wants to talk to today')

Any help (and/or references) much appreciated
Ian Mackenzie
Newcastle University


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:53:42 -0400
From:  Paul Hagstrom <hagstrom at MIT.EDU>
Subject:  Sinhala, Okinawan speakers?

I'm in desperate need of native speaker consultants both for Sinhala
(Sinhalese) and for Okinawan (of the dialect spoken around Shuri).  I do
not have too many questions to ask, but the ones I do have are quite
important to my dissertation research on question formation.  If anyone
reading this either speaks one of these two languages or knows somebody who
might be able to help, I would greatly, greatly appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks in advance...

 -Paul Hagstrom
  hagstrom at mit.edu

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