10.1937, Qs: Translation of Compound Nouns, Lang vs Dialect

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1937. Tue Dec 14 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1937, Qs: Translation of Compound Nouns, Lang vs Dialect

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Date:  Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:34:25 +0900 (JST)
From:  Oliver Cromm <ocromm at icsd4.tj.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Machine Translation of Compound nouns

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Date:  Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:51:09 -0500
From:  George Fowler <gfowler at indiana.edu>
Subject:  Source of famous pithy saying about language vs. dialect

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Date:  Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:34:25 +0900 (JST)
From:  Oliver Cromm <ocromm at icsd4.tj.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Machine Translation of Compound nouns


Dear Members,

I am a Ph.D. student working on machine translation of Compound Nouns,
especially from Japanese to German.

I would be grateful for information about new tendencies and experiments
in the field, especially those including the use of corpora, statistics,
or word similarity.

If there are several answers, I may also post a summary.

Many thanks in advance.

Oliver Cromm


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Date:  Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:51:09 -0500
From:  George Fowler <gfowler at indiana.edu>
Subject:  Source of famous pithy saying about language vs. dialect

Greetings!

Does anyone know authoritatively what the source of the pithy
catch-phrase about the difference between a language and a dialect
being that a language has an army and a dialect doesn't? And how the
original wording runs? In addition to posting an answer to the list,
if you have one, could you please cc. a copy to me? Thanks in advance!

George Fowler
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