6.826, Qs: Tolkien, AAAL, Hyphenation function, GB-based grammars

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-826. Wed 21 Jun 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 114
 
Subject: 6.826, Qs: Tolkien, AAAL, Hyphenation function, GB-based grammars
 
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 09:21:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: PIERRE LARRIVEE (aaa552 at agora.ulaval.ca)
Subject: Tolkien's language (once again...)
 
2)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:55:49 +0100 (BST)
From: "Mr A.P. Berber Sardinha" (tony1 at liverpool.ac.uk)
Subject: AAAL
 
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:09:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: scameo at nywork2.undp.org (Salomon Cameo)
Subject: Information
 
4)
Date:   Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:15:46 -1000
From: Ricky Jacobs (rjacobs at uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu)
Subject: GB-based grammars of English
 
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 09:21:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: PIERRE LARRIVEE (aaa552 at agora.ulaval.ca)
Subject: Tolkien's language (once again...)
 
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I'm posting this on behalf of a friend of mine who's not on the list. He
wants to know about reference works on the language of Eldars in JRR
Tolkien's work, such that he could write in that language. So a cursary
grammar and a lexicon would be quite helpful. Thanks.
 
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:55:49 +0100 (BST)
From: "Mr A.P. Berber Sardinha" (tony1 at liverpool.ac.uk)
Subject: AAAL
 
Hi,
I wonder if someone would be so kind as to send me
the electronic or postal address of the American Association
for Applied Linguistics? I've been trying to get hold of
info on their conference in 1996 in Chicago without
success.
 
Thanks in advance
 
Tony
 
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:09:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: scameo at nywork2.undp.org (Salomon Cameo)
Subject: Information
 
Good day,
 
I am working on a project to publish the "Consolidated List of Products
Banned" in English, French and Spanish. The Consolidated List is a
publication of the United Nations intended to disseminate information on
agricultural, pharmaceutical and other chemicals whose production or
distribution has been banned or restricted by governments.
I am looking for a hyphenation function which I can call from a C program
giving a word and getting back a hyphenated word. Is there any
information that could you please provide? Thank you.
 
Salom"n Cameo
scameo at undp.org
 
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Date:   Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:15:46 -1000
From: Ricky Jacobs (rjacobs at uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu)
Subject: GB-based grammars of English
 
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Someone recently asked if there were pedagogically useful descriptions of
English grammar from a GB perspective. I am the author of one, ENGLISH
SYNTAX: A GRAMMAR FOR SECOND LANGUAGE PROFESSIONALS, from Oxford. I am
interested in finding out others for a grad. course comparing such texts.
I would be surprised if there weren't others. Certainly when Peter
Rosenbaum and I wrote English Transformational Grammar, we had plenty of
company. I suppose the next wave will be Minimalist grammars--but who
knows how that presently less than coherent framework will turn out!
 
I would also like to hear about any pedagogically useful grammars within
the broad framework of cognitive/construction grammar. I'll summarize
whatever I find out.
 
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