13.2217, Qs: "shm-reduplication", Subj. Agreement Morphology

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-2217. Wed Sep 4 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 13.2217, Qs: "shm-reduplication", Subj. Agreement Morphology

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1)
Date:  Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:11:12 +0000
From:  Bert Vaux <vaux at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject:  shm-reduplication survey

2)
Date:  Wed, 04 Sep 2002 08:06:37 +0000
From:  Eric Fuss <fuss at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de>
Subject:  development of subject agreement morphology

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

Date:  Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:11:12 +0000
From:  Bert Vaux <vaux at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject:  shm-reduplication survey

We have just posted an online survey of shm-reduplication, the process
involved in fancy --> fancy shmancy, Oedipus --> Oedipus shmoedipus,
and so on. If you have intuitions about how to apply shm-reduplication
to new words, we hope you will consider taking the survey. It should
be pretty fun, and will help us out. It's located at:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/shm/

Thanks,

Bert Vaux
Department of Linguistics
Harvard University

Andrew Nevins
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
MIT

Subject-Language: English, Yiddish; Code: ENG


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

Date:  Wed, 04 Sep 2002 08:06:37 +0000
From:  Eric Fuss <fuss at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de>
Subject:  development of subject agreement morphology

Dear all,

I'm currently working on the development of subject agreement
morphology out of pronouns/clitics (and possible syntactic
consequences of this diachronic process such as verb movement,
pro-drop etc.). Does anybody know a language that is currently
undergoing this change -- apart from Mongolian (Comrie 1980),
colloquial French, and colloquial Hebrew (as discussed by Mira Ariel)
-- or has undergone it in its recent(recorded)history?  I will of
course post a summary.

Thanks,

Eric Fuss

Institut fuer deutsche Sprache und Literatur II
University of Frankfurt
Germany

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