[personal] Meillet

[Jim Bisso]

Here's the information I've been able to find on it:

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/armynavy.html
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/vol06/vol06.087
http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-1998.1/msg00887.html
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000633.php

I also have a copy of the yivo bleter with the Weinreich article in it.
I could copy it for you.

jim

Harold F. Schiffman wrote:

> I don't know Ostler's use of the quotation, but for the record Antoine
> Meillet first said "a language is a dialect with an army" - later Max
> Weinreich used it in a talk in NewYorkCity (in Yiddish) and added "with a
> navy". There was a long discussion of all this in LgeinSociety, summed up by
> the then editor William Bright. I am sure he can give you the exact
> reference to it <see address above) Lycka till med talet! Christina Bratt
> Paulston
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>>From: Trond Trosterud <trond.trosterud at hum.uit.no>
>>To: lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
>>Subject: Re: CFP: FEL VIII: On the Margins of Nations: correction of e-mail
>>Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 3:34 AM
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>>Dear nicholas ostler!
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>>I am about to give a talk on laguage technology and minority languages
>>here in Tromsö (linked to my project http://giellatekno.uit.no).
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>>Connected to that I would like to give a quote. i believe it comes from
>>you, in some publicaton I imagine i have seen you have paraphrased
>>Uriel Weinreich's "a language is a dialect with a fleet and an army"
>>into "a language is a dialect with a machine-readable dictionary and
>>basic language technology resources" (as you see, my attempt at
>>remembering  both quotes are quite inaccurate).
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>>So, do you know what I am talking about? If so, could you send me the
>>quote (and I'll make it famous here in Tromsø)
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>>Trond
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