10.1474, Qs: Convert British Phon/American,Past Subjunctive

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1474. Thu Oct 7 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1474, Qs: Convert British Phon/American,Past Subjunctive

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Date:  Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:05:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Nina Silverberg <nsilverb at astro.ocis.temple.edu>
Subject:  converting British phon. to American

2)
Date:  Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:12:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:  decaen at chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
Subject:  past subj?

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

Date:  Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:05:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Nina Silverberg <nsilverb at astro.ocis.temple.edu>
Subject:  converting British phon. to American

Does anyone know of any listing of systematic rules of conversion from
British pronunciation to American pronunciation?

reply to: nsilverb at unix.temple.edu

Nina B. Silverberg                              Phone: (215) 707-3090
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience               Fax: (215) 707-7843
Department of Neurology
Temple University School of Medicine
3401 N. Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19140



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Date:  Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:12:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:  decaen at chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
Subject:  past subj?

in 18th century english the subjunctives were productive. e.g., "Oh Jack,
knewest thou my conceit, and were but thy laugh joined to mine, I believe
it would hold me for an hour longer." interesting here too is the word
order.

I would appreciate a ref to a really good description of the phenomenon.
but what i really would like is a strictly compositional analysis that
would show, tense-logic-like, how mood + past = irrealis.
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Dr Vincent DeCaen     <decaen at chass.utoronto.ca>
c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave., 2d floor
University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1



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