16.1418, Qs: Systematic Ungrammaticality; Medical Emails

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Subject: 16.1418, Qs: Systematic Ungrammaticality; Medical Emails

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1)
Date: 04-May-2005
From: Paul Llido < pllideau at yahoo.com >
Subject: Systematic Ungrammaticality

2)
Date: 03-May-2005
From: David McGeady < dave.mcgeady at gmail.com >
Subject: Patient-Physician Emails

	
-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 11:30:21
From: Paul Llido < pllideau at yahoo.com >
Subject: Systematic Ungrammaticality



Hello All,

I'd like to know if anybody knows of any work I could read about the
systematic use of ungrammatical sentences to discover the structure of
grammatical sentences.  I'm studying cebuano CEB (ethnologue: an
austronesian language). I've used the standard squib tools in GB/PP:
postposing, preposing, deletion and substitution. CEB displays instances of
ergativity in a highly equational structure and I'm thinking of ways to
represent this structurally by studying where a grammatical sentence can
become ungrammatical and how far it can be considered  ungrammatical. I'm
experimenting on the one hand with GB/PP and with LFG on the other so I can
explain the non-configurationality. I will post a summary  of the replies.

Many thanks,
Paul Llido
Department of Languages and Literature
University of San Carlos
Cebu City

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


	
-------------------------Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 11:30:24
From: David McGeady < dave.mcgeady at gmail.com >
Subject: Patient-Physician Emails

	

Hi,

Currently I am writing my master's thesis on the impact of patient physcian
emailing on clinical efficiency and effectivness.

This has been examined from a medical perspective by looking at clinical
outcomes. It has also been examined from an operations point of view by
timing physicians as they respond to emails. Nevertheless, what has so far
been neglected is an examination of the quality of these communications in
comparison to telephone calls and face-to-face visits.

Am not a linguist myself, but would be really interested in finding out if
anything like this has been done yet?

Key Questions:

How does email compare with the telephone?

Can patients articulate their condition adequately?

How many emails would it take to convey the same amount of information as a
telephone call?

It really is a fascinating area, and if someone isn't writing about it yet,
they certainly should! Many thanks for your help,

Dave

--
David McGeady B.A. B.A.I.
HEMA Research Group
Helsinki University of Technology
Finland

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics




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