6.1291, Qs: Biblical Hebrew, Lg & dialect, Psych V, Evolution, Yankee

Thu Sep 21 13:52:21 UTC 1995

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Subject: 6.1291, Qs: Biblical Hebrew, Lg & dialect, Psych V, Evolution, Yankee

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Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:08:41 +0200
From:  arian at th.vu.nl
Subject:  Q: Valency / Case Frame Lexicons for Biblical Hebrew

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Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:19:35 BST
From:  dag.gundersen at inl.uio.no (Dag Gundersen)
Subject:  Q: Language and dialect

3)
Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:33:26 BST
From:  by10001 at cus.cam.ac.uk ("B. Yuan")
Subject:  Q: Psych verbs in Chinese and English

4)
Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:12:44 -0000
From:  simon at ling.ed.ac.uk (Simon Kirby)
Subject:  Q:  Biological evolution of language - anyone?

5)
Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:13:35 BST
From:  larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk ("Larry Trask")
Subject:  Q: "Yankeeism"

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Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:08:41 +0200
From:  arian at th.vu.nl
Subject:  Q: Valency / Case Frame Lexicons for Biblical Hebrew

Doing research on the binyanim in Biblical Hebrew,
I am looking for (a) machine-readable lexicon(s)
that would contain information on verb valency in
this language.
Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.

Arian Verheij

Dr Arian J.C. Verheij                        | email  arian at th.vu.nl
VU, Dpt. Biblical Studies & Computer Science | phone +31 20 444 6625/7
De Boelelaan 1105, kr. 14A-38                | fax   +31 20 444 6635
NL 1081 HV  Amsterdam
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Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:19:35 BST
From:  dag.gundersen at inl.uio.no (Dag Gundersen)
Subject:  Q: 6.1277 Language and dialect

I have been hunting for the origin (who said it) of the sentence "A
language is a dialect with an army and a fleet behind it", often quoted,
but never with a source. Can anyone help?
Dag

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Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:33:26 BST
From:  by10001 at cus.cam.ac.uk ("B. Yuan")
Subject:  Q: Psych verbs in Chinese and English

Could anyone there provide me references on the difference between English
and Chinese psychological verbs, such as excite, please, interest, etc.? I
would like to know why Chinese only allows the bimorphemic form of psych
verbs while English allows both the bimorphemic form and monomorphemic
form of psych verbs. More specifically, why are structures in both (1)
and (2) below are possible in English whereas only (2) is possible in
Chinese but not (1)?

(1) The news pleased him.

(2) The news made him pleased

I'll appreciate any suggestions and advice.

Please reply directly to me. (by10001 at cus.cam.ac.uk)

Many thanks and sorry to disturb those not interested.

Boping Yuan
Faculty of Oriental Studies
University of Cambridge
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Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:12:44 -0000
From:  simon at ling.ed.ac.uk (Simon Kirby)
Subject:  Q: Biological evolution of language - anyone?

I am just coming to the end of a PhD in linguistics, and am currently
applying for research grants to look at computational simulations
(e.g. hybrid GA/ANNs) of the evolutionary emergence of linguistic
communication. This is clearly an area that is intrinsically
multi-disciplinary and I'd like to get some idea of who is interested
in this line of work. So, I'd appreciate any names of people
(particularly in Europe) working on or interested in:

	Biological evolution of language,
	"artificial life" models of (linguistic) communication,
	computer simulations in linguistics,
	theoretical neurobiology of language,
	or anything else that might be relevant!

If there is anywhere I should look for names then pointers would be
welcome. I have carried out a small review of the literature (eg the
Santa Fe ALIFE volumes etc.) and I was surprised not to find anybody
working this side of the water, though I'm sure I'm missing people!

Thanks in advance for your time,

Simon

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Simon Kirby -- Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
simon at ling.ed.ac.uk ------------ http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~simon/
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Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:13:35 BST
From:  larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk ("Larry Trask")
Subject:  "Yankeeism"

The 19th-century British anthropologist and eugenicist Francis Galton
uses the term `Yankeeism' to denote what is obviously some kind of
supposedly distinctive physical appearance.  He asserts that it is
particularly common in the USA and in Australia, but rare in Britain,
and he explicitly contrasts it with the "English type".  Does anybody
have any idea what exactly this term is supposed to mean?

Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
England

larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk
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