7.642, Qs: Bilingual corpora, E-mail, Spanglish, Dative subjects

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-642. Wed May 1 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  163
 
Subject: 7.642, Qs: Bilingual corpora, E-mail, Spanglish, Dative subjects
 
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Date:  Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:44:16 BST
From:  ludovica at ling.ed.ac.uk (Ludovica Serratrice)
Subject:  Bilingual corpora
 
2)
Date:  Tue, 30 Apr 1996 18:49:37 +0200
From:  kirk at lenet.fr (Kirk McElhearn)
Subject:  E-mail
 
3)
Date:  Wed, 01 May 1996 15:24:50
From:  juan at udllanos.ba.ar (Juan Bernardo Llanos Lamarque)
Subject:  "SPANGLISH" resources needed
 
4)
Date:  Wed, 01 May 1996 15:17:37 GMT
From:  HG4 at soas.ac.uk (HOWARD GREGORY)
Subject:        Dative Subjects
 
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Date:  Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:44:16 BST
From:  ludovica at ling.ed.ac.uk (Ludovica Serratrice)
Subject:  Bilingual corpora
 
Dear all,
 
I am desperately seeking English/Italian bilingual corpora from
children aged between 1;8 and 3;6 (approximately). Unfortunately there
arent' any on CHILDES and I was wondering whether anyone could help me
find at least one. Since I have a feeling that it won't be easy, I am
also willing to consider English/Spanish corpora in the same age
range.  I would be EXTREMELY GRATEFUL if someone could point me in the
right direction.  Thanks for your help.
 
Ludovica Serratrice
Department of Linguistics
University of Edinburgh
40, George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LL
UK
e-mail:   ludovica at ling.ed.ac.uk
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Date:  Tue, 30 Apr 1996 18:49:37 +0200
From:  kirk at lenet.fr (Kirk McElhearn)
Subject:  E-mail
 
 
For a Master's dissertation in applied linguistics, for Aston
University in Birmingham, in the UK, I am planning to investigate the
notions of speech community/discourse community within e-mail mailing
lists, using a framework of speech events, and ethnography of
communication.  I will also examine some of the exchanges used on
mailing lists, and look at how they relate to similar exchanges in
face-to-face interaction.
 
Would anyone know of any such work that may have been done,
specifically dealing with e-mail, or newsgroups?
 
Thanks very much for any information you may be able to give me.
 
Kirk
 
 
 
Kirk McElhearn
 
Translations from French to English, English to French
Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais
 
kirk at lenet.fr
http://www.lenet.fr/kirk
 
91 rue de la Mesangerie
37540 St Cyr sur Loire
France
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Date:  Wed, 01 May 1996 15:24:50
From:  juan at udllanos.ba.ar (Juan Bernardo Llanos Lamarque)
Subject:  "SPANGLISH" resources needed
 
 
A friend of mine is writing her doctoral thesis and needs materials
on:
 
        - "Spanglish" or "Espangles" in Florida (U.S.A)
 
I would appreciate any info (books and other resources) that you could
send me.
 
Thank you very much.
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Date:  Wed, 01 May 1996 15:17:37 GMT
From:  HG4 at soas.ac.uk (HOWARD GREGORY)
Subject:        Dative Subjects
 
 
I would be grateful for information on how different languages pattern
with respect to these two features:
 
(i)     Ability of the RECIPIENT argument of a ditransitive verb to be
the surface Subject of a Passive sentence.
       (e.g. English  "HE was given a book").
 
(ii)    "Dative Subjects" - possession by Dative-marked NP's of
Subject-like properties such as control.
        (e.g. Russian   "Mne (DAT.) nravit-sya..."
                        (cf. Perlmutter and Postal, 1984))
              Italian   "Mi (DAT.) piace..."
                        (cf. Belletti and Rizzi (1986))).
 
I would be particularly interested if any languages known to
Linguistlist subscribers have BOTH or NEITHER of these properties. (I
would like, as the basis for some current research, to be able to make
the generalization that the two are in complementary distribution).
 
With thanks,
 
Howard Gregory
hg4 at soas.ac.uk
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