17.3644, Qs: Adverbial Relatives/Financial Services Corpus

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Subject: 17.3644, Qs: Adverbial Relatives/Financial Services Corpus

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1)
Date: 07-Dec-2006
From: Radek Simik < r.simik at rug.nl >
Subject: Adverbial Relatives - Call for Data and References 

2)
Date: 05-Dec-2006
From: Esther Ho < egrcpce at polyu.edu.hk >
Subject: Financial Services Corpus 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:12:20
From: Radek Simik < r.simik at rug.nl >
Subject: Adverbial Relatives - Call for Data and References 
 


Dear colleagues,

I plan to start a morpho-syntactic and semantic research of so called
adverbial relatives, i.e. place-, time-, manner-, and reason-relatives,
illustrated by the following English examples:

1. a. I like the city where I was born
    b. I remember the year when the war started
    c. I admire the way (that) Peter plays the piano
    d. I want to know the reason why John went home so early

Currently, I am in search of the following:

- references on this topic (mainly concerning syntactic and semantic
research but not excluding typological, acquisition, and other related
kinds of research)

- data from a number of typologically different languages
I am interested mainly in the way these relative are morphologically
introduced/expressed. As far as I have found out so far, such relatives may
be introduced by (i) a corresponding wh-question-word, as in (1a); (ii)
declarative complementizer, as in (1c); (iii) relative complementizer; (iv)
resumptive strategy. Note that one language may combine these strategies
even for one relativization-type.

I will be grateful for any kind of information, brief or detailed. Speakers
of less desribed languages are specially invited to contribute! For
interested linguists, a more detailed questionnaire may be prepared.

Please, send your references/data to this email address:
r.simik at rug.nl 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:12:27
From: Esther Ho < egrcpce at polyu.edu.hk >
Subject: Financial Services Corpus 

	

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Research Centre for Professional
Communication in English is building up a Financial Services Corpus in Hong
Kong. We have been collecting annual reports, prospectuses of listed
companies, speeches of government regulatory bodies and etc. We would like
to see if any linguist or any organisation, is doing something similar ---
also working on a financial corpus. 

Thanks! 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
 



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