18.775, Qs: Arabic Concordancing; Overt Nominative Case

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Subject: 18.775, Qs: Arabic Concordancing; Overt Nominative Case

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1)
Date: 09-Mar-2007
From: masoud ali < omdurman60 at gmail.com >
Subject: Arabic Concordancing 

2)
Date: 08-Mar-2007
From: Vita Markman < vita_markman at pomona.edu >
Subject: Overt Nominative Case 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:18:54
From: masoud ali < omdurman60 at gmail.com >
Subject: Arabic Concordancing 
 


I am a course writer in Arabic and in need of an Arabic concordancing soft
tool.  Any thing available online or commercially?  Can buy.

Thanks. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics


	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:18:57
From: Vita Markman < vita_markman at pomona.edu >
Subject: Overt Nominative Case 

	

Dear Linguists, 

I am trying to find out some references that would address the status of
apparently overt nominative case morphology in such Indo-European languages
as Greek and Icelandic. Overt nominative case in Indo-European languages
generally seems to be more of an exception rather than a rule. Yet, it
exists and thus presents a rather intransigent counter-example to theories
that treat nominative case as unmarked /default case or the absence of case.

Also, does anyone know of an Indo-European language that has overt
nominative case, subject agreement, but lacks gender distinctions on
NPs/pronouns?  In Latin, for example, the '-us' ending on nominative
masculine nouns can be attributed to gender-marking, not necessarily to
case. So, I am trying to find out whether such a treatment can possibly
apply to languages such as Icelandic and/or Greek. 

 I would greatly appreciate any and all references and pointers concerning
this issue.  

 Many thanks in advance
Sincerely,
Vita Markman 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
 



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