7.1644, Qs: English requests, Word Frequency, South Asian Lgs & Lx

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1644. Thu Nov 21 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  100
 
Subject: 7.1644, Qs: English requests, Word Frequency, South Asian Lgs & Lx
 
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Date:  Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:34:01 +0200
From:  ilfi7 at cc.uab.es (Hortensia Curell)
Subject:  English requests
 
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Date:  Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:38:07 MST
From:  Peter.Ross at anu.edu.au
Subject:  Word Frequency in Asia
 
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Date:  Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:38:55 +0800
From:  ellaps at leonis.nus.sg (Anjum Pervez Saleemi)
Subject:  Yearbook of South Asian Languages & Linguistics
 
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Date:  Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:34:01 +0200
From:  ilfi7 at cc.uab.es (Hortensia Curell)
Subject:  English requests
 
A graduate student of mine is writing a Master's thesis on requests
in natural classroom language in English. We would appreciate any
information on the following aspects:
i) usage of requests by native speakers of English.
ii) any studies done on the usage of requests by learners of English
(either in the classroom situation or in natural settings).
 
I will provide a summary of all the answers received.
Hortensia Curell
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanistica
Edifici B
08193 Bellaterra. Spain
Tel.: (3) 581 2325  581 1567
Fax: (3) 581 20 01
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Date:  Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:38:07 MST
From:  Peter.Ross at anu.edu.au
Subject:  Word Frequency in Asia
 
 
I am looking for sources of word frequency statistics for languages in
mainland East and Southeast Asia: Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese), Thai,
Vietnamese, Hmong, Khmer, Burmese, etc. A summary will be posted.
 
Thank you
 
Peter Ross
Thai/Linguistics
Australian National University
 
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Date:  Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:38:55 +0800
From:  ellaps at leonis.nus.sg (Anjum Pervez Saleemi)
Subject:  Yearbook of South Asian Languages & Linguistics
 
Dear Colleagues:
 
As announced recently on the LINGUIST by Ranjendra Singh (U Montreal),
Sage (New Delhi) is going to begin publishing a Yearbook of South
Asian Languages and Linguistics.  Since the Yearbook will contain
(among other things) field reports of work on South Asian languages in
various regions, I'd be grateful to hear about any research on these
languages conducted particularly in SOUTHEAST Asia. Information about
such research will be briefly outlined in the report from Southeast
Asia, which I'm currently engaged in writing. Many thanks in advance
for your assistance in letting us put together integrated information
about the work in question.
 
Anjum P. Saleemi
National University of Singapore
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