World Loanword Series

[Mingo Mendez]

Hi Anthoni and Kim,

sure enough you have plenty of volunteers for Spanish but anyway,
My English/Spanish vocabulary comparison has just been published

by Lambert Academic Publishing from Germany and available in
UK, USA and other countries through Amazon.com by title:

*Lady Liberty-Constructing the Jungian self in Gender Parity and Linguistic
diversity.*

my work also suggests the compilation of a *Cognate Bilingual Dictionary *
series
among Western languages  and other, not just mere listings like NTC

(National Textbook company from Illinois). Your research might well back up
a proposal, Judith Willis, from OUP took to England to consider.

Best wishes,
Domenec

http://livescripts.blogspot.com/2010/12/lady-libertys-search-for-partners.html
http://livescripts.blogspot.com/2008/07/language-and-identity_03.html




On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Anthony Grant <Granta at edgehill.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear subscribers:
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> We are looking for people with specialist knowledge of the history of
> particular languages to contribute data to the efforts of the World
> Loanword Series, which   is a continuation of  the Loanword Typology
> Project which was  headed from 2004-2010 by Martin Haspelmath and Uri
> Tadmor (see Loanwords in the world’s languages: a comparative
> handbook, edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, Mouton de
> Gruyter,2009).  The aim of this is  to investigate cross-linguistically,
> in an accountable way, what can be borrowed and what is likely or
> unlikely to be borrowed, in the world's languages.  The database
> contains entries for 1600 concepts, and although we would like
> information on the equivalents of the concepts in the database, borrowed
> lexical items and items which are loan translations from other languages
> are our especial concern.  We would like people working on a language
> for the WLS to fill out the database for their language as far as
> possible, and also to provide us with a prose chapter of up to 8000
> words on the loanwords in that database, their sources and information
> about the language contact history of speakers of this language, which
> is intended to appear in an online collection and maybe in a paper
> volume.  The finished databases will be added to those in the Loanword
> Typology superdatabase.  A link to the concept database is here:
> http://email.eva.mpg.de/~taylor/wold/help.html
> While we are interested in contibutions for as many languages as
> possible, some geographical areas or genealogical groupings were
> under-explored in the Loanword Typology Project.  We are therefore
> especially interested in coverage of languages of Native North America,
> Khoisan languages, non-Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea and
> the Solomons, Basque, Korean, Mongolic and Palaeosiberian languages, and
> languages of the Middle East, the southern and western Caucasus, and the
> Indian subcontinent.
> If you are interested, please contact us in the first instance for more
> details.
> Anthony Grant
> granta at edgehill.ac.uk
> Kim Schulte
> Kim.schulte at uab.es
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