10.1469, Qs: Translation, Dialects/Corpus, Korean/Japanese

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1469. Thu Oct 7 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1469, Qs: Translation, Dialects/Corpus, Korean/Japanese

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1)
Date:  Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:15:11
From:  robset at easynet.fr
Subject:  Translation in Linguistics

2)
Date:  Wed, 06 Oct 1999 15:15:25 -0400
From:  Marc Andre Belanger <mab at contact.net>
Subject:  English Dialects/Oral Corpus

3)
Date:  Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:45:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Hyun-Sook Kang <virginia56 at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Korean and Japanese Comparison

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:15:11
From:  robset at easynet.fr
Subject:  Translation in Linguistics

Dear List members,
	
I am investigating why translation is so little used as a source of data in
linguistics, as compared to the traditional database comprising  sentences
with acceptability judgments, conversation/text and  sovereign monolingual
productions in general.
	
 I am interested in (as distinct from translation pedagogy, translation
theory per se):

(i) instances of translation being evoked in arguments about
language/thought (I only have a few examples so far, eg the Katz-Keenan
papers (1972, 1978) on the (im)possibility of exact translation,
Jackendoff's (1996) argument to illustrate the thought-language distinction)
		
(ii) use of actual translation (interpreting) data (corpora) in linguistic
inquiry, ie application of linguistic analysis and inference to such data.
	
I will post a summary.
	
References:
Jackendoff, Ray. 1996. How language helps us think. Pragmatics and
Cognition 4(1), 1-34.
	
Katz, Jerrold. 1978. Effability and translation. 191-234.
Keenan, Edward. 1978a. Some logical problems in translation. 157-189
Both in F. Guenthner and M. Guenthner-Reutter (eds.), Meaning and
Translation: Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches, . London: Duckworth.
	
Sincerely,
	
Robin Setton
	
	
	
	


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 06 Oct 1999 15:15:25 -0400
From:  Marc Andre Belanger <mab at contact.net>
Subject:  English Dialects/Oral Corpus

We are currently preparing an exhibition on language in which we want to
present, amongst other things, the various dialects of English around
the world. Does anyone know of a oral corpus on the subject available in
digitalized form?

Thank you.

Dr Marc A. Belanger
Project Manager
mab at contact.net


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

Date:  Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:45:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Hyun-Sook Kang <virginia56 at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Korean and Japanese Comparison

I'm working on Korean and Japanese comparison.  The two languages share many
properties in terms of grammar and so I'm having a hard time finding
reversible morphosyntactic contrastive features between the two languages.
Does anyone know of any reversibly contrastive features?  The morphosyntactic
features should be obligatory.

Thank you in advance.
 	
Hyun-Sook Kang
 	

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