6.750, Qs: UNIX fonts, V2 and discourse, Intro to Lang, Metathesis

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-750. Thu 01 Jun 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 138
 
Subject: 6.750, Qs: UNIX fonts, V2 and discourse, Intro to Lang, Metathesis
 
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Date: Mon, 29 May 95 13:24:34 +0200
From: Beatrix Kress (bkress at stud.uni-frankfurt.de)
Subject: UNIX-Fonts??
 
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Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 10:33:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vincent DeCaen (decaen at epas.utoronto.ca)
Subject: Q: V2 and discourse
 
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Date:    Fri, 26 May 95 12:34 PDT
From: Vicki Fromkin                        (IYO1VAF at MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU)
Subject: request
 
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Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 09:26:34 +1030
From: mcconvell_p at uncl04.ntu.edu.au
Subject: Metathesis
 
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Date: Mon, 29 May 95 13:24:34 +0200
From: Beatrix Kress (bkress at stud.uni-frankfurt.de)
Subject: UNIX-Fonts??
 
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Hello to all machine-bound linguists out there!
 
May sound funny, but circumstances force me to ask if
there exists some utility (-ies) of any kind to use
cyrillic or IPA fonts NOT on Macs or (the smaller) IBMs,
but with UNIX, i.e. under AIX (graphic). Has anyone
ever heard of such a possibility ?? (to be honest,
right until now I have never spent any thought upon
it).
 
Anyway being grateful for you reading this mail,
Berthold Kress, Frankfurt/M., Germany
 
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Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 10:33:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vincent DeCaen (decaen at epas.utoronto.ca)
Subject: Q: V2 and discourse
 
one unintended bonus of my work on Biblical Hebrew syntax (V2 vs VSO)
is that there is a clear basis for topic-comment structure
(spec-I''=topic, I'=comment).  now, in the field, all the rage is the
discourse-structuring properties of the formal grammar.  it seems to
me that it is worth the trouble to track topicalization through a text
on the assumption of my analysis.
 
the topicalization appears to virtually match the numbers obtained in
Germanic V2 systems, e.g., in % of fronting Subject, etc, etc.  it
then appears that a good place to start is the lit on the
pragmatico-discourse effect of fronting in matrix structures in
German, Dutch, etc.
 
can someone please provide recent bibliography, preferably a concise
article or two with good bibliography, on the effect of fronting in
Germanic systems as a heuristic for work on the Semitic systems.
 
thankyou in advance.
 
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Date:    Fri, 26 May 95 12:34 PDT
From: Vicki Fromkin                        (IYO1VAF at MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU)
Subject: request
 
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Bob Rodman and I are about to start on the revisions of our Introduction
to Language -- 6th edition and we need all the input, suggestions, proposed
changes, corrections, critiques , i.e. help, we can get from any one
who has used the text and particularly from those who haven't (as to why
not).
 
As always, we will be eternally grateful -- and will be sure anyone sending
in suggestions will not only be acknowledged but will get a complimentary
copy of the book should you want one.
 
wish I could promise a round trip flight for two to the place of your
choice but alas --
 
Grateflly (in advance)  Vicki Fromkin
 
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Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 09:26:34 +1030
From: mcconvell_p at uncl04.ntu.edu.au
Subject: Metathesis
 
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I would like to get references to any work done on metathesis using recent
phonological theory (metrical theory etc).
 
I'm working with a speaker of Dawan (West Timor) which has a great deal of
synchronic (and probably grammatically conditioned) metathesis of the VCV)
VVC type e.g. mepu)meup. I have a copy of a conference paper by Steinhauer
discussing this phenomenon in Dawan, and giving references to other work
before 1991 on Austronesian languages with metatheis (Rotuman, Letinese)
and earlier works from the 1960'-70's on metathesis in general. I am looking
for more recent work, primarily theoretical, but also language descriptions
(not necessarily Austronesian)
 
Patrick McConvell
Anthropology
Northern Territory University
Darwin, NT Australia
fax: 089-466977
 
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