11.2392, Qs: Icelandic Construction, Arabic as Mother Tongue

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Subject: 11.2392, Qs: Icelandic Construction, Arabic as Mother Tongue

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Date:  Sat, 4 Nov 2000 07:12:36 EST
From:  YukaMakita at aol.com
Subject:  Icelandic existential constructions

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Date:  Sun, 05 Nov 2000 00:05:36 +0100
From:  Amr IBRAHIM <amr.ibrahim1 at libertysurf.fr>
Subject:  Acquisition of Arabic as mother tongue

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

Date:  Sat, 4 Nov 2000 07:12:36 EST
From:  YukaMakita at aol.com
Subject:  Icelandic existential constructions

Dear Linguists,

I'm Yuka Makita, a graduate student at Nagoya University, Japan.
I'm interested in a comparative and a diachronic study of existential
constructions.
And, now, I'd like some native speakers of Icelandic to
make grammatical judgement of the sentences below.

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[Q1]
I want to ask you whether the following word order is
possible or not in Icelandic.  (never = 'aldrei' in Icelandic,
(1) and (2) are English translation.)  And, (1) includes the adverb
'never' (=aldrei).  Can it be replaced by some other VP adverbs?

(1) a.  there put the butter never any students in the pocket
    b.  there put never any students the butter in the pocket
    c.  there put any students never the butter in the pocket
    d.  there put any students the butter never in the pocket

(2) a    there have any students never put the butter in the pocket
    b.  there have never any students put the butter in the pocket

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[Q2] Are the following examples acceptable in Icelandic?

(3)  There stepped an old man into the bus cautiously.
(4)  An old man stepped into the bus cautiously.

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Thanks in advance,

*****
Yuka Makita
E-mail: YukaMakita at aol.com


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Date:  Sun, 05 Nov 2000 00:05:36 +0100
From:  Amr IBRAHIM <amr.ibrahim1 at libertysurf.fr>
Subject:  Acquisition of Arabic as mother tongue

Supervising a graduate work on the acquisition of Arabic as a mother
tongue from a strictly linguistical point of view I noticed there were
nearly nothing writtten on the subject in English, French or Arabic. Is
there anybody working in the field? Is anyone familiar with serious
litterature about this question ?
With some of my colleagues I am planning to organise a meeting in Paris
at the end of 2001 to gather those who have something done in this
direction and wish to share their experience or look for new insights.
Therefore we would appreciate any kind of information related to the
acquisition of arabic as a mother thongue. We are also looking for
people interested by the meeting.
I shall post a summary as soon as the information received will deserve
it. Please feel free to answer in the language in which you feel more at
ease.

Amr Helmy IBRAHIM
amr.ibrahim1 at libertysurf.fr
Fax   33 1 48 00 09 42
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Amr Helmy IBRAHIM
Professeur de Linguistique à l'Université de Franche-Comté

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