7.534, Qs: Navajo, Resources, ASL texts, Teaching

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-534. Thu Apr 11 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  144
 
Subject: 7.534, Qs: Navajo, Resources, ASL texts, Teaching
 
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Date:  Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:10:21 +0700
From:  WYMANN at isw.unibe.ch (Wymann Adrian)
Subject:  Q: Navajo samples glossing
 
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Date:  Mon, 08 Apr 1996 09:33:46 +0700
From:  hanyf at peter.petra.ac.id (Hany Ferdinando)
Subject:  Linguistic resources
 
3)
Date:  Tue, 09 Apr 1996 11:08:16 PDT
From:  baltes at jkhbhrc.byu.edu (Paul Baltes)
Subject:  ASL texts
 
4)
Date:  Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:49:17 +0900
From:  masuya at mxb.meshnet.or.jp (Yoshihiro Masuya)
Subject:  Teaching Foreign Languages
 
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Date:  Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:10:21 +0700
From:  WYMANN at isw.unibe.ch (Wymann Adrian)
Subject:  Q: Navajo samples glossing
 
I am currently compiling material on modal expressions in a language sample
which includes Navajo. Going through various sources of published material has
provided me with numerous examples, but the going regularly gets tough when
dealing with older material, as this is often not glossed and requires some
amount of tedious work (for a linguist with no practical knowledge of Navajo)
in order to establish the morphological structure of a sentence. Despite
numerous attempts, two examples (both from Young & Morgan, 1980) have so far
beaten me completely, and I would appreciate any help concerning the
morphological segmentation of the following two examples (diacritics omitted
and approximate standard ASCII characters substituted for non-standard ASCII
characters):
 
a) haashii neelaa naahaiidaa 'ahoot'iid jini
   "it reportedly happened quite a number of years ago"
   Young & Morgan (1980, 63)
 
b) dii chidi dah dideesh' aalgo 'at'e (haz'a) shila'bee
   "I can lift this car up with my (bare) arms"
   Young & Morgan (1980, 59)
 
Any hints sent to me directly would be much appreciated.
Adrian Wymann, Linguistics Dept., University of Berne, Switzerland
wymann at isw.unibe.ch
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Date:  Mon, 08 Apr 1996 09:33:46 +0700
From:  hanyf at peter.petra.ac.id (Hany Ferdinando)
Subject:  Linguistic resources
 
Ayone can help me searching linguistic resources and newsgroup?
I need information about studying linguistics with internet facility
thanks
 
Hany Ferdinando (Petra Christian University)
hanyf at peter.petra.ac.id
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3430
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Date:  Tue, 09 Apr 1996 11:08:16 PDT
From:  baltes at jkhbhrc.byu.edu (Paul Baltes)
Subject:  ASL texts
 
My department (English) is having a debate on whether to accept ASL
as a foreign language for graduate admissions.  I realize that this
is not a unique debate within the academy, but in order to have it
accepted to fulfill the requirement, I will need to show that ASL and
other sign langauges have a body of literature.  Does anyone know of
any texts (i.e. The ASL translation of The Book of Mormon) , films
(i.e. Children of a Lesser God), video/text translations of or original
literature, poetry etc?
 
Thank you.  I will post a summary of any help I receive in this
matter.
 
Please send any materials to:
Paul Baltes
baltes at jkhbhrc.byu.edu
 
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Paul Baltes
baltes at jkhbhrc.byu.edu
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Date:  Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:49:17 +0900
From:  masuya at mxb.meshnet.or.jp (Yoshihiro Masuya)
Subject:  Teaching Foreign Languages
 
Thur, 11 April, 1996.
 
Dear Colleagues,
 
We have just started a new organization, Institute for Language and Culture
and the jobs of its members of the staff include studies of Teaching
Foreign Languages.
 
I should be grateful, if anyone tell me what journals dealing with this subject
are available.
 
The information given to me will be summarized on LINGUIST.
 
Yoshihiro Masuya.
Prof. Yoshihiro Masuya <masuya at mxb.meshnet.or.jp>
Prof. of English Linguistics & Phonetics  |Residential Address
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