Hello everyone. This is somewhat unusual for me to do, but I feel I've earned a bit of goodwill over the last few months, and would like to ask for a bit of ...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
May 1, 2006 7:24 am
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... I would be interested in attending, but my institutional connections are wholly of the wrong sort. I'm reminded, however, of (former?) listmember Daniel...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
May 1, 2006 9:49 am
138989
... Well, I'll be studying at SOAS next year, in the UK, which is just about the perfect place for such a thing. Of course, I'm not there yet, but it's a...
Joe
joe@...
May 1, 2006 10:16 am
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I'll be a gradstudent in the linguistics department at Cambridge next fall. -elliott ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
May 1, 2006 12:36 pm
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What I meant to say, but it seems like i forgot to type all of it, is that I'll be a gradstudent there and it would be fun if a conference was held in the ...
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
May 1, 2006 12:59 pm
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Hallo! ... Which Cambridge, Massachussets or England? ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
May 1, 2006 1:49 pm
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... I wouldn't know how to contact him. Ping him on my behalf and ask? - Sai...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
May 1, 2006 3:07 pm
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FWIW, you don't have to be "influential" per se, in the sense of convincing your department to give you funds. I didn't ('least not till the last minute). ...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
May 1, 2006 3:20 pm
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... I'll come to the one Joe organizes at SOAS (where, come October, I'd love to be a fly on the wall to see what the lecturers there make of Joe when he turns...
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
May 1, 2006 3:28 pm
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I was interested & delighted to come upon Sai's page called "On the design of an ideal language" (http://community.livejournal.com/conlangs/14524.html), as my...
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
May 1, 2006 5:48 pm
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The last on-list discussion of nonlinear two-dimensional language (i.e. such as could be written on a page, and is not merely a representation of linear...
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
May 1, 2006 6:19 pm
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... My understanding is that a split-S language has two sets of intransitive verbs, some of which obligatorily take an Agent subject, and some taking a Patient...
Paul Roser
pkroser@...
May 1, 2006 7:01 pm
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... For mathematical logic, that is (almost) true. I say almost because a single proposition being proved has many dependent justifications, each propositions....
David G. Durand
dgd@...
May 1, 2006 7:24 pm
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I ate two Tuesdays. :P...
Antonielly Garcia Rod...
antonielly@...
May 1, 2006 7:47 pm
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... I rather suspect every language has its own colorless green ideas, and I rather suspect that at least some utterances will either be grammatically...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
May 1, 2006 7:52 pm
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... *nod* Could you suggest some events to hold during the conference to flesh it out more (other than just talks)? ... Heh, *nod*. But that'd probably not...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
May 1, 2006 8:31 pm
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Cambridge UK. I'd have said Harvard or MIT I guess if I meant Massachussets, since, I dont know if there's actually a Cambridge University in Cambridge, Mass. ...
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
May 1, 2006 8:34 pm
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... I have spent probably more time than is good for me on the AUXLANG mailing list, and have observed that people who agree about the desirability of an...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
May 1, 2006 9:00 pm
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... *grin* ... Hopefully, and in principle I agree. It does come down, however, to whether I have people volunteering to run the backend there. If not, then it...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
May 1, 2006 9:02 pm
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Methinx that "non-sense" and/or "incorrect" are quite socio-culturally-dependent and subjective. Ferinstanz, to average monolinigual American with the bare...
Hanuman Zhang
zhang@...
May 1, 2006 9:08 pm
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I'm just registering my interest if said conference occurs in Cambridge or somewhere else in the UK. If it's abroad, I don't know that I'll have the time or...
Chris Bates
chris.maths_student@...
May 1, 2006 9:19 pm
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... For instance, in additional to presentations where a speaker talks for a while and then fields questions, we could have sessions where a moderator leads a...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
May 1, 2006 9:30 pm
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Jim Henry, On 01/05/2006 21:52: [...] ... This sounds like an additional principle, a Principle of Redundancy, which might be split into two, a Principle of...
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
May 1, 2006 10:30 pm
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... Can you elaborate on how your conlang(s) manage noise resistance at the level of phonetic realization? ... Yes, it would probably be better to express this...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
May 1, 2006 11:28 pm
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From me, send accidentally to Paul instead of the list, because of undesirable Reply-To mungeing....
And Rosta
and.rosta@...
May 2, 2006 12:11 am
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... Compare and contrast the random utterances of US President - stress on 'dent' as in 'dented', 'dentures', 'dense' - George Dubya Bush with the output from...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
May 2, 2006 1:28 am
139013
... In a case like "slide", Tiki would use a reflexive pronoun. E mi se ha lipe ove ta koli. AGENT I REFL. PERF. slide over the ice I slid on the ice...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
May 2, 2006 2:25 am
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... Hmm. Most of my langs are intended as fictional natlangs, especially non-human ones, which for realism necessarily fall short of being "ideal" languages in...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
May 2, 2006 3:36 am
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... Tuesday isn't that common a name, but if dragons can talk (as often seems to be the case), it's possible you could hear one say this......
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
May 2, 2006 4:00 am
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... [...] FWIW, what I meant by the PSC is not necessarily that every utterance must make sense in some *pragmatic* sense (vis. colorless green ideas) - that's...