9.471, Qs: Learning Ling,Slavic,Geminates,French
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Subject: 9.471, Qs: Learning Ling,Slavic,Geminates,French
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:52:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "D. Andrews" <dandrews at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Technology for Learning Linguistics
2)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:26:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Elena Rudnitskaya <erudnits at email.gc.cuny.edu>
Subject: Dative Infinitive Subjects in Slavic Languages
3)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:12:37 -0500 (EST)
From: NORA AION <naion at email.gc.cuny.edu>
Subject: Geminates
4)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:33:03 +0000
From: R.D.N.Walker at bton.ac.uk
Subject: Language Interference in France.
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:52:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "D. Andrews" <dandrews at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Technology for Learning Linguistics
There are a ton of computer programs available now to help students
learn langauges. I'm looking for resources to help students learning
Linguistics. For example, "Sounds of the World's Langauges," from
UCLA, has audio samples of phonemic distinctions not made in English,
that a student can access by clicking on a world map, or a list of
langauges, or IPA symbols. It's great. I'm wondering what other
resources are out there, possibly for morphology, semantics or syntax.
Or any branch of Linguistics actually. I'd be grateful for any
thoughts and post a summary.
Donna Andrews
University of Washington
dandrews at u.washington.edu
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:26:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Elena Rudnitskaya <erudnits at email.gc.cuny.edu>
Subject: Dative Infinitive Subjects in Slavic Languages
Dear linguists,
I am working on infinitive Dative subjects in Russian, such as
(1) "Ne znaju, chto mne delat'"
not know what-Acc I-Dat to-do
"I do not know what I must do"
I am trying to find out which head checks the Dative feature of such
subjects (or assigns Dative to them). For the sake of that, I am
looking for comparative data from different Slavic languages (Czech,
Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovene). In every single Slavic
language, I am trying to get evidence for a correlation between
existence of Dative "subjects" with modals meaning "necessary"("must")
and "possible" ("can") and existence of Dative infinitive subjects,
such as in (1).
I will appreciate all the native speakers of Slavic languages who can
answer the following questions:
I have two big questions.
1) Can you use Dative "subjects" with predicates meaning
"necessary" ("must", such as "trzeba" or "nuzhno" in Russian) and
predicates meaning "possible" ("can", such as "mozhna", "mozhno" in
Russian"); "impossible" ("cannot", such as "nel'zja" in
Russian). (Note that these Dative "subjects" are not structural
subjects with which the predicate agrees, but just sentence-initial
noun phrases which occur with 3 sg. neut. predicate.)I give the
literal English translations of possible examples:
(a) John (Dative) (is) necessary to-go-to-bed
Mary (Dative) (is) not necessary to-go to school
(b) Peter (Dative) (is) possible to-eat candy
Ann (Dative) (is) impossible to-go-to-bed late
If you cannot have Dative subjects in examples (a)-(b), can you
translate (c) and (d) into your language with a "for John (Genitive)"
phrase or something like that (but not with a Nominative "John" as in
"John must go to bed", "John can eat candy"). If yes, please give the
examples.
(c)"It is necessary for John to go to bed"
(d)"It is possible for John to eat candy"
Please give examples of clauses where you can use Dative subjects
(with predicates "easy", "want", "cold", "hot", etc).
2) Can you have Dative subjects of infinitives, according to the
scheme: (Wh-word)-subject(Dat)-(copula)-infinitive. I give literal
English translations of possible examples:
(a) For-what (is) John(Dative) to-marry? (Meaning lit."What is the
reason for John to marry?" or "John must not marry")
For-what (is) Mary(Dative) to-study? (Meaning lit."What is the reason
for Mary to study?" or "Mary must not study")
(b) Where (is) Peter(Dative) to-sleep? (meaning "Where can/must Peter
sleep?") What (is) John(Dative) to-do? (meaning "What can/must Peter
do?")
(c) Tom(Dative) (is) not to-win us (meaning "John cannot win us")
Bill(Dative) (is) not to-pass the exam (meaning "Bill cannot pass the
exam")
If you cannot have sentences as in (a)-(c) with Dative, can you
translate "John must not marry", "Where can/mustJohn sleep?" and "John
cannot win us" into your language as finite sentences? Please give the
translations with whatever case of "John".
Can you have dative subjects in embedded infinitives, such as in (d)?
(d) John(Nom) did not say when Peter(Dative) to-come to-see him
(meaning "...when Peter must come")
Mary(Nom) does not know who(Acc) she(Dative) to-ask to-do that
(meaning "...who she can ask to do that")
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:12:37 -0500 (EST)
From: NORA AION <naion at email.gc.cuny.edu>
Subject: Geminates
Can anyone point me to a language(s) where geminates appear heavy for
one phonological process within the language, but not for another
phonological process within that same language? Please reply directly
to naion at email.gc.cuny.edu. Thank you.
Nora Aion
The Graduate Center of the City Univ. of New York
C.U.N.Y Graduate School and University Center
(212) 691-1846
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:33:03 +0000
From: R.D.N.Walker at bton.ac.uk
Subject: Language Interference in France.
Hi. I'm interested in finding out if there are any geographical areas
in France where the French language 'norme' is influenced or changed
by contact with foreign languages, for example like the appearance of
'franglais' in some parts of Canada.
Please e-mail any help on this subject to: dej at bton.ac.uk
Thanks.
Daniel Jarvis
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