Histling-l Digest, Vol 48, Issue 2

Sun Apr 10 10:15:00 UTC 2011

Dear Anthony and Kim,

I am Marianne Bakro-Nagy working on Ob-Ugric (Uralic) languages, especially
on Mansi (Vogul). I don’t know whether you have somebody who is willing to
do the Mansi part but if not, I offer my contribution. I have a number of
questions but it would be nice to get your answer first.

With best wishes,

Marianne

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> From: "Anthony Grant" <Granta at edgehill.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Histling-l] World Loanword Series
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> 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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