8.281, Qs: Kanakuru, Frequency, Unaccusativity

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Subject: 8.281, Qs: Kanakuru, Frequency, Unaccusativity

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Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 19:29:11 +0100
From:  Vieri.Samek-Lodovici at uni-konstanz.de (Vieri Samek-Lodovici)
Subject:  Native speaker of Kanakuru/Dera (Chadic Language)

2)
Date:  Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:51:52 +0000
From:  Nigel Smith <nigel.smith at nentydd.demon.co.uk>
Subject:  Letter Frequencies

3)
Date:  Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:50:53 +0100 (MET)
From:  helge.lodrup at ilf.uio.no (Helge =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F8drup?= )
Subject:  Unaccusative phenomena in ergative languages

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Date:  Mon, 24 Feb 1997 19:29:11 +0100
From:  Vieri.Samek-Lodovici at uni-konstanz.de (Vieri Samek-Lodovici)
Subject:  Native speaker of Kanakuru/Dera (Chadic Language)

Can anyone help me in getting in contact with a native
speaker, or field-researcher, of the Chadic language
Kanakuru (also known as "Dera", and "Deru") ?

Kanakuru is spoken in Nigeria, in the Bornu and Adamawa provinces
(main cities: Shani, Shellen). It belongs to the Bole-Tangale
cluster of the Plateau-Sahel branch of the Chadic language family.

Thank you in advance,

Vieri Samek-Lodovici

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Sprachwissenschaft, Uni-Konstanz
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Date:  Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:51:52 +0000
From:  Nigel Smith <nigel.smith at nentydd.demon.co.uk>
Subject:  Letter Frequencies

I would be grateful if any member of the list point me in the direction
of statistics (in hard copy or electronic form) on letter-frequency in
any or all of the Indo-European languages using alphabetic scripts. I am
particularly interested in any work done on earlier stages of the
languages. All help will be gratefully acknowledged and a summary posted
to the list.

Nigel Smith
University of Wales Lampeter
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/mlang/

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Date:  Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:50:53 +0100 (MET)
From:  helge.lodrup at ilf.uio.no (Helge =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F8drup?= )
Subject:  Unaccusative phenomena in ergative languages

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I have the following question from a student who is visiting my department:
What has been written about unaccusative phenomena in ergative languages?
Please answer directly to her: martha at cphling.dk (Martha Karrebaek)

Helge Lodrup

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University of Oslo
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