7.479, Qs: J.R. Firth's quotation, Hiberno-English, Wh-Movement

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-479. Thu Mar 28 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  101
 
Subject: 7.479, Qs: J.R. Firth's quotation, Hiberno-English, Wh-Movement
 
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Date:  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:54:54 MST
From:  juan_sosa at sfu.ca (Juan Manuel Sosa)
Subject:  Query: J.R. Firth's quotation
 
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Date:  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:38:03 +0100
From:  Marc.Fryd at univ-poitiers.fr (Marc Fryd)
Subject:  Hiberno-English
 
3)
Date:  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:42:42 PST
From:  fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick Newmeyer)
Subject:  Query: Wh-Movement
 
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Date:  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:54:54 MST
From:  juan_sosa at sfu.ca (Juan Manuel Sosa)
Subject:  Query: J.R. Firth's quotation
 
Dear linguists,
 
J.R. Firth apparently said (or wrote) that "part of the meaning of
being an American is to sound like one."
 
Does anybody out there know where this quotation came from?  I heard
it in a recent conference, and the author told me she got it from
Anderson (?)  1985, p. 180.  Unfortunatley, I haven't been able to
locate either the original source or the Anderson 1985 work that
quoted it.  Can anybody help?
 
Cheers,
 
Juan M. Sosa
Simon Fraser University
 
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Date:  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:38:03 +0100
From:  Marc.Fryd at univ-poitiers.fr (Marc Fryd)
Subject:  Hiberno-English
 
 
Does anyone know where I might find computerised corpora of
(preferably spoken) Hiberno-English?
 
 
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Date:  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:42:42 PST
From:  fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick Newmeyer)
Subject:  Query: Wh-Movement
 
Where can I find a recent summary of the explanations that have been put
forward for why verb-initial languages tend to have wh-movement and why
verb-final languages tend not to?
 
I'm also interested in the 'internal' typology of wh-movement: languages
that have it in relatives, but not in interrogatives, and vice-versa (and
explanations that have been put forward for this).
 
Thanks
 
Fritz Newmeyer
fjn at u.washington.edu
 
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