8.1232, Qs: Israel, Mandarin, TG, Phonetics

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1232. Wed Aug 27 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1232, Qs: Israel, Mandarin, TG, Phonetics

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1)
Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:16:10 +0300 (IDT)
From:  Klearman Leah <klrmn at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject:  Internships in Israel

2)
Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:08:42 -0700
From:  fcosw5 <fcosw5 at mbm1.scu.edu.tw>
Subject:  Q: incorporation in Mandarin?

3)
Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:32:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Andreas Kathol <kathol at socrates.berkeley.edu>
Subject:  Subcategorization in Tranformational Grammar

4)
Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:50:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Jerap1 at aol.com
Subject:  phonetics software

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:16:10 +0300 (IDT)
From:  Klearman Leah <klrmn at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject:  Internships in Israel


I have recently moved to Israel and am studying at Tel Aviv University
towards a MA in Linguistics (but my bachelors is not in
linguistics). I am looking for information regarding possible (paid)
internships with companies working on projects which include a
linguistic aspect. If anyone knows of any internship possibilities, or
even knows which companies in Israel are working on linguistics
oriented projects, I would apretiate any information you can give me.

Thanks in advance,

Leah Klearman
klrmn at zoot.tau.ac.il


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:08:42 -0700
From:  fcosw5 <fcosw5 at mbm1.scu.edu.tw>
Subject:  Q: incorporation in Mandarin?

Having recently arrived in Taiwan to take up a teaching position and,
as a result, started getting involved with Mandarin Chinese, i have
very recently noticed that in this language, compound verbs can be
`interrupted', if i may so put it, by locative phrases.  Witness the
following exs.:

Ba  yizi  banjin  fantingli  lai
obj.marker  chair  move-come-in-  dining room  -come
`Bring the chairs into the dining room'

Ta  paohui  jya  qule
he  run-return-  home  -go-asp.marker
`He has run back home'

Ba  zheiben  shu  nahui  xuexiao  qu
obj.marker  this-class.  book  carry-return- school -go
`Take this book back to the school'

I'm wondering (in order not to reinvent the wheel) if anybody has
looked into the possibility of analyzing such constructions as
examples of incorporation?  If not, can anybody offer me a good reason
why not?  If there's enough interest i'll post a summary.

Best,
Steven
-
Steven Schaufele, Ph.D.
Asst. Prof. of Linguistics
English Department
Soochow University
Waishuanghsi Campus
Taipei 11102
Taiwan, ROC
(886)(02)881-9471 ext. 6504
Fax: (886)(02)883-5158
fcosw5 at mbm1.scu.edu.tw


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:32:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Andreas Kathol <kathol at socrates.berkeley.edu>
Subject:  Subcategorization in Tranformational Grammar

Dear colleagues,

I'm wondering if someone could give me some pointers to the latest
literature in transformational grammar (GB, P&P, Minimalism) that
deals with issues of subcategorization. In particular I would like to
get a sense of the latest thinking, including ways in which Minimalism
departs from previous assumptions.  Among the questions that I would
ideally like to see addressed are the following:

- What kind of subcategorization relations have been assumed in the
recent literature, and for what kinds of phenomena? For instance, a
transitive verb must somehow encode the requirement of taking a DP
complement. But can a verb also take a PP complement according to the
identity of that PP's head (as in _rely_ + _on_)?

- How are subcategorization relations constrained? That is, what
syntactic (or semantic) properties are thought to be accessible (in
the limit) to the selecting head?

- If there are substantive formal constraints on subcategorization,
where do they come from? Is there anything in the architecture of the
theory from which such constraints would follow?

Thanks very much,

  --Andreas Kathol


-------------------------------- Message 4 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:50:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Jerap1 at aol.com
Subject:  phonetics software

I am interested in software containing phonetic symbols--can anyone
direct me?

Thanks,

Karen Robinson

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