13.1864, Qs: Creole Phonology, Eng Middle Contruction

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-1864. Sun Jul 7 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 13.1864, Qs: Creole Phonology, Eng Middle Contruction

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1)
Date:  Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:53:14 -0400
From:  "Jean-Pierre Angenot" <angenot at gm-net.com.br>
Subject:  over Batticaloa Creole Phonology

2)
Date:  Fri, 05 Jul 2002 15:48:29 +0000
From:  nirada simargool <nsimargo at students.wisc.edu>
Subject:  english middles

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Date:  Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:53:14 -0400
From:  "Jean-Pierre Angenot" <angenot at gm-net.com.br>
Subject:  over Batticaloa Creole Phonology


Please, I need to find the reference of a PhD dissertation defended at
Cornell University (in the 70ties) by Ian R. Smith over Batticaloa
(Sri Lanka) Portuguese Creole Phonology.  Thank you very much.

Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Angenot


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Date:  Fri, 05 Jul 2002 15:48:29 +0000
From:  nirada simargool <nsimargo at students.wisc.edu>
Subject:  english middles

I am studying the development of the English middle construction such
as:

(1)This shirt irons easily.

In most of the sources I have looked at (Visser, Denison, Lightfoot),
middles are found more in Early Modern English than in Old or Middle
English.

Does anyone have any information on this?

Furthermore, I am also interested in finding examples of middles in
all periods of English. Does anyone know of websites or corpora that
will not tax the meager monetary situation of a (relatively)poor
graduate student?

I'll post a summary.

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