8.1369, Qs: Tenses, Brill's Tagger, Sign Language

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Subject: 8.1369, Qs: Tenses, Brill's Tagger, Sign Language

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Date:  Mon, 27 Aug 1956 21:43:49 +0000
From:  Minako Nakayasu <nakayasu at kwc-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Tenses

2)
Date:  Thu, 25 Sep 97 10:19:30 +0200
From:  Ingeborg Blank <blank at cis.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject:  Brill's Tagger

3)
Date:  Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:52:40 +0200
From:  Arild Hestvik <arild at vega.ifl.uib.no>
Subject:  Sign Language for Linguists

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

Date:  Mon, 27 Aug 1956 21:43:49 +0000
From:  Minako Nakayasu <nakayasu at kwc-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Tenses

Dear Linguists:

I posted a list of questions concerning English tense several months
ago and thanked linguists who kindly answered them.  I would like to
ask questions again in order to make my analysis better.  I would be
very happy if you could answer them.  I will post a summary if I have
received enough responses.  Thank you in advance.

Minako Nakayasu
Assistant Professor
Kagoshima Women's College
1904 Uchi
Hayato-cho, Aira-gun, Kagoshima
899-51  Japan
nakayasu at kwc-u.ac.jp

My questions are as follows: In each of the sentences below, the main
clause has the past tense and the complement clause has the
past/present tense.  Which tense would you choose in the complement
clause?  If both of them are OK, *please* give a context in which each
of the tense can be used.
(1) Did you know I am/was allergic to alchohol?
(2) Didn't you know I am/was allergic to alchohol?
(3) Did you know he is/was allergic to alchohol?
(4) Didn't you know he is/was allergic to alchohol?
(5) Did you know I have/had arrived?
(6) Didn't you I have/had arrived?
(7) Did he know I have/had arrived?
(8) Didn't he know I have/had arrived?
(9) Did you know he is/was going out with her?
(10) Didn't you know he is/was going out with her?
(11) I knew you are/were allergic to alchonol.
(12) I didn't know you are/were allergic to alchohol.
(13) I said he is/was going out with her.
(14) I didn't say he is/was going out with her.
(15) I thought he is/was going out with her.
(16) I didn't think he is/was going out with her.


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

Date:  Thu, 25 Sep 97 10:19:30 +0200
From:  Ingeborg Blank <blank at cis.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject:  Brill's Tagger

Dear subscribers,

I would like to use the rule-based POS-Tagger of Eric Brill for
another language than English, probably for French or German, and I am
looking for people who could share to me their experiences about the
application of the tagger in this special case.

Thanks

________________________________________________________
Ingeborg Blank				Tel: +89 2178 2712
CIS
University of Munich 			Fax: +89 2178 2701
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Muenchen
Germany
________________________________________________________


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

Date:  Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:52:40 +0200
From:  Arild Hestvik <arild at vega.ifl.uib.no>
Subject:  Sign Language for Linguists


I'm interested in hearing from people about syllabus for a sign
language course for linguists, i.e. a theoretically oriented course on
sign language for linguistics students.

Please send syllabus examples and course descriptions directly to
hestvik at lili.uib.no.

Thanks,
Arild Hestvik
Linguistics
University of Bergen

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