12.1530, Qs: Am Eng /ae/ Informants, Postponement References

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Subject: 12.1530, Qs: Am Eng /ae/ Informants, Postponement References

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1)
Date:  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:52:22 +0200
From:  "Antony Green" <green at kronos.ling.uni-potsdam.de>
Subject:  American tense /ae/ informants

2)
Date:  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:11:03 -0600
From:  "Maria Martinez Lirola" <mlirola at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Thematization and Postponement

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

Date:  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:52:22 +0200
From:  "Antony Green" <green at kronos.ling.uni-potsdam.de>
Subject:  American tense /ae/ informants

Hello,

I'm looking for informants who are native speakers of a variety of
American English that has (near-)complementary distribution between
lax [ae] (e.g. in polysyllabic words like "happy", maybe also in
monosyllabic words before certain consonants like "cat, cap, tack,
pal, hang") and tense [E] (e.g. in "ram, ran, laugh, path, pass").

Anyone who can help please drop me a line at
green at kronos.ling.uni-potsdam.de

Thanks!
Antony Green


Antony Dubach Green                     green at kronos.ling.uni-potsdam.de
Universität Potsdam
Institut für Linguistik                 Tel. +49 331 9772401
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, Haus 35
14476 Golm                              Fax  +49 331 9772087
Germany

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

Date:  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:11:03 -0600
From:  "Maria Martinez Lirola" <mlirola at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Thematization and Postponement

Dear Colleagues,

Counting on your great knowledge in linguistics, I would like to ask for
your help in the following issue:
I am working in a doctoral dissertation in processes of thematization and
postponement in English. I am about to finish it but I do not have enough
bibliographical references regarding the process called postponement in
English. So far, the only references that I have been able to use have been
Quirk et alii (1985, Downing and Locke (1992) and Huddleston (1984) but I
need something more specific.
Please let me know about any books or articles in addition to the above.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Maria Martinez Lirola

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