7.526, Qs: Topics, Words, Teaching GB, Search, Web pages

Wed Apr 10 15:00:47 UTC 1996

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-526. Wed Apr 10 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  174

Subject: 7.526, Qs: Topics, Words, Teaching GB, Search, Web pages

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1)
Date:  Fri, 05 Apr 1996 11:39:26 EST
From:  bing at albert.bu.edu (Bing Lin Zhao)
Subject:  Topics in Chinese

2)
Date:  Mon, 08 Apr 1996 08:56:13 MDT
From:  cassian at worldnet.net (Cassian Braconnier)
Subject:  Germanic versus Romance properties of English words

3)
Date:  Mon, 08 Apr 1996 16:26:44
From:  gaby at fing.us.es (Gabriel Amores)
Subject:  Query: Deductive vs inductive approaches to Teaching GB

4)
Date:  Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:20:39 CDT
From:  fcosws at prairienet.org (Steven Schaufele)
Subject:  searching for lost linguists

5)
Date:  Tue, 09 Apr 1996 23:18:23 MDT
From:  asano at Colorado.edu
Subject:  Web page for intro linguistics course

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1)
Date:  Fri, 05 Apr 1996 11:39:26 EST
From:  bing at albert.bu.edu (Bing Lin Zhao)
Subject:  Topics in Chinese

    I am now working on topic and focus in Mandarin Chinese,and
    specifically, I will be attempting to provide a syntactic
    account of topics in Chinese.  I would be grateful to pointers
    to any relevant research in this area, and would be eager to be
    in contact with others pursuing similar research. Please send me
    e-mail at bing at albert.bu.edu. Thank you very much.
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Date:  Mon, 08 Apr 1996 08:56:13 MDT
From:  cassian at worldnet.net (Cassian Braconnier)
Subject:  Germanic versus Romance properties of English words

In "The Minimalist Program", chap. 4, p. 230, Chomsky writes:
"We will make the still stronger assumption that overt operations cannot
detect phonological features at all - such features cannot, for example,
distinguish one overt operation from another.13"
In footnote 13, p. 381, he writes:
"Prima facie evidence to the contrary is familiar, for example, Germanic
versus Romance properties of English words..."
I have no idea of the nature of these Germanic versus Romance properties of
English word. Can anybody give some input on this?
Thanks.

Cassian Braconnier
Maitre de Conferences Universite Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Membre de l'URA 1720 du CNRS (syntaxe formelle)
snail-mail:
2 bis, rue Etienne Marey
75020 PARIS
FRANCE
Tel. (1) 43 61 14 72
Fax  (1) 43 61 14 72

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3)
Date:  Mon, 08 Apr 1996 16:26:44
From:  gaby at fing.us.es (Gabriel Amores)
Subject:  Query: Deductive vs inductive approaches to Teaching GB

We would like to know the opinion of the members of this list regarding their
 experience in teaching GB. Specifically we would like to receive comments on
 the two ways of teaching it exemplified by the two text books Napoli's 1993
 _Syntax: Theory and Problems_ and Haegeman's 1994 _Introduction to GB_ 2nd ed.
 These books may be seen as the prototypes of the inductive vs deductive
 approaches to teaching. In the inductive approach the student is given the
 minimum theory. S/He constructs as much of it as possible by solving sets of
 problems. On the contrary, the deductive approach -exemplified by Haegeman-
 presents the theory as a given and the exercises are just a way of practicing
 the acquired knowledge.
If there is interest we will summarize the results of this query to the whole
 list.
Thanks
Gabriel Amores
gaby at fing.us.es
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Date:  Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:20:39 CDT
From:  fcosws at prairienet.org (Steven Schaufele)
Subject:  searching for lost linguists

As many of you know, i have for about a year and a half been running a
series of short lectures on syntactic theory via Internet, to a large
number of subscribers.  In recent months, i have repeatedly had such
lectures bouncing back at me from a few of my subscribers' addresses.  I
have managed by various means to locate more up-to-date addresses for
many of these via the standard procedures, address lists, etc., but there
are a dozen that continue to give me trouble.  (In some cases, of course,
the problem may not be that i have the wrong address but that the system
isn't cooperating with me.  But the following addresses have given me
trouble repeatedly.)  If anybody can give me any help in getting in touch
with any of the following people, i would greatly appreciate it.

Cathy Barrows		most recently at <cathy1339 at aol.com>
Marjolein Groefsema	 "      "     "  <M.Groefsema at herts.ac.uk>
David Hays		 "      "     "  <dlh11 at phx.cam.ac.uk>
Manfred Immler		 "      "     "  <manfred.immler at mch.sni.de>
Yan Jiang		 "      "     "  <ctyjiang at hkpcc.hkp.hk>
Simon Kirby		 "      "     "  <simon at ling.ed.ac.uk>
Inderjeet Mani		 "      "     "  <mani at azrael.mitre.org>
Cristina Mazzi		 "      "     "  <cri at cst.ku.dk>
Benjamin Moore		 "      "     "  <ben at edr5r.co.jp>
Martha Schulte-Nafeh	 "      "     "  <msnafeh at ccit.arizona.edu>
Jacques Steyn		 "      "     "  <steynj at alpha.unisa.ac.za>
Stephen Weissman	 "      "     "  <izzy2po at mvs.oac.ucla.edu>

Thank you very much for any help you can give.

Best,
Steven
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Dr. Steven Schaufele
712 West Washington
Urbana, IL  61801
217-344-8240
fcosws at prairienet.org
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5)
Date:  Tue, 09 Apr 1996 23:18:23 MDT
From:  asano at Colorado.edu
Subject:  Web page for intro linguistics course

Dear LINGUIST subscribers,
Recently I found that a couple of Web pages for a linguistics course at a
university.  Those pages have syllabus of the course, requirements,
answer keys to exercises, and some 'fun' pages on linguistics.  As I am
going to be a TA for an intro to linguistics course next fall, I would
like to design a similar Web page myself.
I've already identified SUNY/Albany and Bucknell University using such a
Web page.  I would appreciate if you can give me URLs of those Web pages
if you know any others.
I am not a subscriber of this list so please send me an e-mail at:
asano at Colorado.edu
I'll post a summary as I get sufficient responses.
Thank you in advance.
-Y. Asano, PhD student, U. of Colorado at Boulder
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