7.70, Qs: German isogloss, Inference, "Turkey," Names

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-70. Wed Jan 17 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  124
 
Subject: 7.70, Qs: German isogloss, Inference, "Turkey," Names
 
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Date:  Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:00:49 GMT
From:  larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk ("Larry Trask")
Subject:  German isogloss boundary
 
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Date:  Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:50:58 +0100
From:  sperber at poly.polytechnique.fr (sperber dan)
Subject:  Geis & Zwicky's invited inference
 
3)
Date:  Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:54:52 EST
From:  theriaal at ERE.UMontreal.CA (Theriault Alain)
Subject:  How do you say "turkey"?
 
4)
Date:  Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:21:58 GMT
From:  PICARD at VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA (MARC PICARD)
Subject:  Re: First names
 
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Date:  Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:00:49 GMT
From:  larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk ("Larry Trask")
Subject:  German isogloss boundary
 
For many years I have had in my files a map of part of the isogloss
boundary separating north German _us_ `us' from south German _uns_ in
the vicinity of the Rhine.  The map shows a long finger of _uns_
territory extending northward along the Rhine deep into _us_
territory, as far as Koblenz, and it illustrates the possible effect
of a river upon an isogloss boundary.  I'd like to use this map in a
forthcoming book, but unfortunately I no longer have a record of
where I found it, and I can't locate it now in any obvious source.
Can anyone provide any kind of source at all for this map?
 
Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
England
 
larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk
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Date:  Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:50:58 +0100
From:  sperber at poly.polytechnique.fr (sperber dan)
Subject:  Geis & Zwicky's invited inference
 
In "On invited inferences" (Linguistic Inquiry, 1971) Geis &
Zwicky argued that some conditionals of the form "if P then Q" invite
the inference "if not P then not Q". Ira Noveck and I are starting a
pragmatic and experimental study on this "invited inference". We
would be grateful for help with compiling a bibliography. We are
interested in all discussions and comments on Geis & Zwicky' invited
inference. We will post a summary of responses on LINGUIST.
 
Dan Sperber
GRICE (Groupe de Recherche sur l'Inference et la
Comprehension Elementaires)
CREA - Ecole Polytechnique
1, rue Descartes. 75013 Paris, France
email: sperber at poly.polytechnique.fr
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Date:  Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:54:52 EST
From:  theriaal at ERE.UMontreal.CA (Theriault Alain)
Subject:  How do you say "turkey"?
 
	A few days ago, I was in deep conversation with a few friends
when arise the question of "why is such and such named the way it is?"
and, still being in the holiday spirit, we took the example of "turkey".
	Turkey, so it seems, is someone else's bird. In French, it is a
"dinde" from "coq d'Inde" (Indian rooster). In English, Turkey, in
Portugal it is a "peru" (although i am not sure of the spelling), I was told
that in Greek it is an "Egyptian rooster" while in Egyptian Arabic (if not
in Arabic in general) it is a "Greek rooster".
	My question is pure curiosity: Are there any other languages that
would name the bird after someone else's country?
	I will gladly sum up when I get answers, so please, answer me directly.
 
Alain Theriault                              |  "The problem with the future
Etudiant au doctorat                         |  is that it keeps on turning
Departement de linguistique et traduction    |  into the present"
Universite de Montreal                       |
theriaal at ere.umontreal.ca                    |   Hobbes (Bill Waterson)
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Date:  Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:21:58 GMT
From:  PICARD at VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA (MARC PICARD)
Subject:  Re: First names
 
	If I met people whose first names were Manashi, Itziar, Nouparat,
 Babrak, Ciru, Fatemeh, Mahalingam and Zeinab, what language would I expect
 each one of them to speak?
 
Marc Picard
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