[lkb] Fwd: Re: Looking for a Comparative Grammar

[ahmed hafez]

--- ahmed hafez <scientist01eg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:09:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: ahmed hafez <scientist01eg at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Looking for a Comparative Grammar
> To: "Emily M. Bender" <ebender at u.washington.edu>
> 
> Dear Emily
> 
> My feelings for your concern are undescribable.
> 
> Dear Emily, if the goal of my research is presenting
> something that exists then what is the point of
> doing
> it at all. Creativity is the only motive for doing
> respectable scientific research which is almost an
> impossibilty in a country like Egypt where there is
> a
> huge lack of resources.
> 
> But what I told you about comparative grammar really
> exists. I took the term from MACHINE TRANSLATION AN
> INTRODUCTORY GUIDE BY D. ARNOLD ET AL. And I have
> read
> an introductory article (the one in Appendix B in
> SYNTACTIC THEORY 1 st Ed.) about Relational Grammar.
> If I get it right then this is almost what I need. 
> 
> My problem is that I have to do and build everything
> from scratch. It might be true that I am too
> ambitious
> and later on might be forced to "scale back the
> goals
> of my project". However, I think that no one can
> move
> forward without being ambitous. 
> 
> Moreover, if I present the theoretical framework
> only
> without any parctical implementation, that will be
> half the road to success. The other half I can do in
> my PHD for instance or with Microsoft! 
> 
> By the way, would you kindly guide me to any up to
> date rescources or references of Relational Grammar.
> 
> Thanks again for your concern.
> 
> Yours-Ahmad
> 
> 
> 
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