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September 23, 2005
I've found some interesting ideas during my last internet surfing. First af all I recommend you to visit Linguistic Phorum. I can't find anything else unfortunately. Here some suggestions from there.
Satem/Centum A centum language can evolve into a satem one over the course of time and vice versa. Romance languages are satem languages (except some very conservative varieties of Sardinian, e.g. Logudorese) but they come from Latin, a centum language. It might be noted words don't describe types of langages. Although one language may influence another it cannot evolve into it. These two words are used to describe the main divisions of Indo-European languages. Satem (the eastern branches) = Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Baltic, Slavonic and Albanian and centum (the western branches) = Greek, Italic, Celtic and Germanic.
http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/phorum/read.php?f=23&i=443&t=443
Questions I'll try to find the answers
What is the difference between compounds and psycho-compounds?
What criteria have been adduced to distinguish compounds such as black board from syntactic groups such as brown board?
What arguments might be given for and against the assumption that carriage, marriage, orphanage and courage are derived by one and the same word formation rule?
The -age ending is French, and probably came into English after the Norman conquest. There is no language divorced from history.
Baggage is another word that might be added to the list. And lately people have been talking about "signage."
The Italian word for courage (at least, one that appears in Shakespeare as an Italian word) is "coraggio." So the suffix might go back to Latin. The "cor" or "cour" is "heart," the same as in the Spanish word "corazon."
What is the difference between word formation by means of rule and word formation by means of analogy?
What is the difference between icons, indexes and symbols? (and do you have examples?)
Why can you form the nouns "greatness", "smallness", "wellness", .. but not *"longness"?
Apparently there's no generall call for a synonym for "length." In the cases of all the others, probably someone did it once and it caught on. By the way some advertisers decided that "health" didn't sound positive enough.
What is a phonological backgrounding process? What a foregrounding process?
How can you make a vowel stronger? How can you make a consonant stronger?
What is the relationship between factors such as social class, social setting, speech style, utterance speed and the 2 phonological process types backgrounding and foregrounding?
http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/phorum/read.php?f=23&i=433&t=433
September 22, 2005
Welcome to Russian linguist's weblog. What can I say about me? Well, I live in Miass city (South Ural) now and work on dissertation "The Explication Methods of Implicit Sences by using IC-analysis". I think Chomsky ideas can be used for explication imlicit senses. Some suggestions you can find in thesises under this postage. If you find them usefull, write to me: miassman@yahoo.com. I'll be glad to discuss them with you. That's all for the first time.
I'm going to place some interesting ideas about contemporary linguistics here at a later date. If you know Russian it'll be intersting for you to visit another page right now. By the way, here you can absolute free download test-version of my English-Russian Dictionary of Linguistic Terms (1064 Kb). (If you need it of course.) The dictionary should be corrected, so I need your help in this work.
Maxim of Quantity and Logic of Naming by Denis Khvorostin | Man not only establish between signifie and signifiant some connection while name something but also create model of reality and structuralizes it. Any word allocates some object, draws a border between that is named and that is not named. While name some kind of animals "tigers" we allocate certain kind from set of animals. Word is the sign of this allocation... | details
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