16.357, Qs: Ergative/Possession Marking; Software Translation

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Subject: 16.357, Qs: Ergative/Possession Marking; Software Translation

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1)
Date: 03-Feb-2005
From: Kirill Shklovsky < kirill.shklovsky at reed.edu >
Subject: Identical Ergative and Possession Marking

2)
Date: 04-Feb-2005
From: Fabio Tabbo < tabbo at gpsdf.com >
Subject: Software Translation

	
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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:46:32
From: Kirill Shklovsky < kirill.shklovsky at reed.edu >
Subject: Identical Ergative and Possession Marking


Dear Linguists:

I am researching a phenomenon in Mayan languages whereby the ergative
cross-reference on the verb is identical to possessor cross-reference on a
possessed noun, and am looking for treatments of this kind of phenomena
(case OR agreement).  As far as I know this occurs outside of Mayan, in
language families such as Eskimo, some Caucassian languages, Tibeto-Burman
languages, perhaps Malagasy, depending on your view, etc.  Bittner and Hale
address this in their 1996 paper ''The Structural Determination Of Case And
Agreement'', but I am not aware of any others.  Can anybody suggest other
treatments of this phenomena, be they syntactic (in whatever framework),
typological, or whatever.  Thanks.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Language Family(ies): Mayan



	
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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:46:35
From: Fabio Tabbo < tabbo at gpsdf.com >
Subject: Software Translation

	

Dear Sirs,

I have an Excel table with texts in different European languages, and I
would like to automatically translate everything in English. Please could
you advise me on the software to buy?

Many thanks,

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Fabio Tabbo'

Linguistic Field(s): Translation






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