6.1483, Qs: Machine-readable dict.,Coordination,False Cognates

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Subject: 6.1483, Qs: Machine-readable dict.,Coordination,False Cognates
 
 
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Date:  Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:42:55 EDT
From:  amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis Manaster Ramer)
Subject:   Machine-readable comparative dictionaries
 
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Date:  Sun, 22 Oct 1995 17:38:47 EDT
From:  lidaka at ernie.wvsc.wvnet.edu ("Juris G. Lidaka")
Subject:  Simple/complex coordination
 
3)
Date:  Sun, 22 Oct 1995 23:14:07 EDT
From:  JanSapp at aol.com
Subject:  false cognates in Italian
 
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Date:  Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:42:55 EDT
From:  amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis Manaster Ramer)
Subject:   Machine-readable comparative dictionaries
 
Other than Pokorny's Indo-European (which I have) does anybody
have or know of a comparative dictionary of any language family
that is available in machine-readable form.  It does not
have to be the whole text either: I really only need the
information on which languages of a family each of the etyma
in its protolanguage is attested in.  I will summarize any
responses.
 
alexis manaster ramer
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Date:  Sun, 22 Oct 1995 17:38:47 EDT
From:  lidaka at ernie.wvsc.wvnet.edu ("Juris G. Lidaka")
Subject:  Simple/complex coordination
 
     In Quirk & Greenbaum's _A Student's Grammar of the English
Language_, sects. 13.27-28 treat complex coordination (i.e.
coordination of 2 or more different units in a sentence), giving
a typical example as "John painted the kitchen white and the
bathroom blue" wherein a single SV sequence is followed the
coordinated pairs OC + OC.
     However, the first example sentence in 13.28 is said to have
complex coordination:
 
          Gregory Peck always was and always will be her
          favourite Hollywood star.
 
The sentence has been lifted from the _Comprehensive Grammar_'s
13.97, where it is presented as an example of interpolated
coordination, here with Adv + V.
     I read the adverbs here as parts of a VP, not as separate
units; then, only a single unit is coordinated and the sentence
has simple coordination, not complex--VP + VP.  Similarly, "The
happy clown and the sad clown doused the fire with a bucket of
gasoline" would not be complex coordination, although the
sentence does indeed have coordinated Det + Adj + N.
     Is this a matter of personal perception and preference?  Or
am I missing something?
          Juris
 
            Juris G. Lidaka 	              Dept. of English
Lidaka at ernie.wvsc.wvnet.edu     	      West Virginia State College
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Date:  Sun, 22 Oct 1995 23:14:07 EDT
From:  JanSapp at aol.com
Subject:  false cognates in Italian
 
I am looking for about 5 sources that discuss and list false cognates in
Italian.  This paper will be written in English for a course called, The
Nature of Language, taught by Dr. Phap Dam at UTD. Any bibliography,
books/articles, will be greatly appreciated.  jansapp at aol.com
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