12.1538, Qs: Linguists in Movies, Slovenian Grammaticality

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-1538. Tue Jun 12 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.1538, Qs: Linguists in Movies, Slovenian Grammaticality

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1)
Date:  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:21:11 -0400
From:  "Charmaine McCoy" <trinichar at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Linguists On Film

2)
Date:  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:40:24
From:  "oxana borzdyko" <oborzdyk at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Question about Slovenian language

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

Date:  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:21:11 -0400
From:  "Charmaine McCoy" <trinichar at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Linguists On Film


With "Lost in Atlantis" opening this weekend with an animated Linguist
as the chief protagonist and the Egyptologist in "Star-Gate" usually
described as one, I started to wonder whether anybody could suggest
the field-work adventures of real linguists (actual or composite) that
would make a commercially viable film--even if it would probably NOT
be a blockbuster?


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

Date:  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:40:24
From:  "oxana borzdyko" <oborzdyk at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Question about Slovenian language

Dear friends:

My name is Oxana Borzdyko. I am a Ph.D. student in linguistics at the
University of Western Ontario. By writting to Linguist List I would like to
get into contact with some speakers of Slovenian who could briefly advise me
on grammaticality of the following six senteces in Slovenian. I would
greatly appreciate your feedback!

(1)	Groz-a in strah je prevzel-a vso vas.
(2)	Groz-a je prevzel-a vso vas in strah.
(3)	______ (Both) groz-a in strah je prevzel-a vso vas.
(4)	____________ (This is/ These are) groz-a in strah _______ (that) je
prevzel-a vso vas.
(5)	____________ (Terrible-plural) groz-a in strah je prevzel-a vso vas.
(6)	Groz-a in strah ______________ (have seized-plural) vso vas.

It would be very helpful if for agrammatical sentences the corresponding
grammatical variants were given. I would not need too many explanations
about Slovenian language itself, because I speak Russian and can use my
knowledge to deduce things about Slovenian. Thank you very much!

Oxana Borzdyko


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