9.925, Qs: WH-Phrases,E-Prime,Old English

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-925. Sat Jun 20 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.925, Qs: WH-Phrases,E-Prime,Old English

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Date:  Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Norvin Richards <norvin at linguist.umass.edu>
Subject:  WH-Phrases

2)
Date:  Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:17:29 -0700
From:  Brian & Kate <brikate at ican.net>
Subject:  E-Prime

3)
Date:  Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:34:17 +0200
From:  "Elisa Vazquez Iglesias" <NVAZQUEZI at nexo.es>
Subject:  Translations from Old English

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Date:  Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Norvin Richards <norvin at linguist.umass.edu>
Subject:  WH-Phrases

In (my) English, there's a contrast between (1) and (2):

(1)  [Whose book] did you buy?
(2) *[Books about what] did you buy?

There seem to be some languages in which the equivalent of (2) is
okay; these include Malagasy, Standard Arabic, and Bafut (a Bantu
language of Cameroon).  I'm looking for languages of this type;
languages, that is, in which an overtly moved wh-phrase can be an NP
containing a PP whose object is a wh-word.  If anyone knows of any,
I'd be grateful for the relevant information.  I'll post a summary to
the list, if there's sufficient interest.

- Norvin Richards


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Date:  Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:17:29 -0700
From:  Brian & Kate <brikate at ican.net>
Subject:  E-Prime

Any and all thoughts/opinions/POVs regarding E-Prime, a.k.a. English
without any form of the verb "to be", will be gratefully accepted and
considered for a Linguistics paper I'm doing. Thank you!


Brian Gallagher
Vancouver, BC
Canada


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Date:  Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:34:17 +0200
From:  "Elisa Vazquez Iglesias" <NVAZQUEZI at nexo.es>
Subject:  Translations from Old English


Dear linguists,

I would like to get in touch with somebody who could help me translate some
Old and/or Middle English data containing 'self' forms. All these data are
taken from the Helsinki Corpus, so I would also like to know if there
exists a translation into Modern English of the diachronic part of this
corpus.

Thanks in advance.

Elisa Vazquez Iglesias
Department of English and German Philology
University of Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN

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