11.120, Qs: Interlanguage, Etymologies

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-11-120. Fri Jan 21 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 11.120, Qs: Interlanguage, Etymologies

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Date:  Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:13:07 +0530
From:  tanya <tanyaroy at mantraonline.com>
Subject:  Interlanguage in Learning a Foreign Language

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Date:  Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:14:38 +0000
From:  "Ronald E.Emmerick" <emmerick at uni-hamburg.de>
Subject:  Etymologies

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Date:  Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:13:07 +0530
From:  tanya <tanyaroy at mantraonline.com>
Subject:  Interlanguage in Learning a Foreign Language

Hello!

My name is Tanya and I teach Italian at the Jawaharlal Nehru
University, Delhi.  I am trying to analyze some traits that are
peculiar to the Italian spoken and written by students of Italian in
Delhi. One of the points that I am investigating is the kind of
Interference present in their Interlanguages since they are learning a
foreign language (which varies from a 3rd to a 7th language) through
English which is not their mother-tongue.

I would like to know if there is research or studies on similar
situations elsewhere in the world.

I do hope to hear from you soon.

Tanya.

You could mail me at tanya_roy at hotmail.com or at tanyaroy at mantraonline.com


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Date:  Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:14:38 +0000
From:  "Ronald E.Emmerick" <emmerick at uni-hamburg.de>
Subject:  Etymologies


"Etymologies are either obvious or wrong". This is a saying I first
heard from my former teacher in Cambridge, the late Sir Harold Bailey,
who also knew its source. I made a note of it but cannot find it. I
thought it was an American linguist but I am not sure. It has been
suggested it may be Meillet, but no one has so far been able to give
me chapter and verse. It is not in the OED.

-
Prof. Dr. Ronald E. Emmerick
Hamburg University

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