BREV TIL: Eli Fischer-Jørgensen FRA: Stephen Anderson (1975-01-28)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Room 851 1350 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Department of Linguistics

28.1.75

Dear Eli,

Thank you very much for your card, and for writing to Vicki on my behalf. My impression is that my chances are fairly good, though with the shortage of jobs here, there are about 150 applicants for the position, and one can never be sure about something like that. I will let you know how things come out. I did not ever get the letters you refer to, though I wish I had. I would have liked to have read the last chapter of your book, though I suppose I will have a chance to do that when it comes out. Also, had I known of your troubles with Faber & Faber, I could have explored some possibilities herei my own publisher, Academic Press, has indicated an interest in more linguistics titles, and especially in things that could serve as texts or as references. I think something might have been possible. In any case, I will be glad to see it come out somewhere - it fills an important need, I enclose a receipt for your DKr 2500 - I hope it is in a suitable form. Thank you very much for your help and generosity. Did anything in fact come of the job at Århus you mention? Was it filled? Especially if the UCLA job does not work out, which is entirely possible, I might well be very interested if it still exists. Is there anything I can or should do in that eventuality? I have asked Academic Press to send a copy of my book to Acta Linguistica. and they should do so soon. Somebody made a mistake, and they didn't send out any review copies to anyone, though I had sent them a list of journals before the book came out. This is gradually being corrected. I would naturally welcome comments from Basbjzfll or anyone else. Please give him my regards j Suzan and I still remember fondly a very pleasant evening with him and his wife. I have a paper in the next issue of Journal of Linguistics, concerned with the interactions of morphologically and phonologically conditioned rules, which makes use of some facts from Danish. Most of what I have to say is based on my reading of Basb^ll's (and Rischel's) articles, though as usual they are not respasible for my misinterpretations. I would naturally be interested in comments on this from any of you. By the way - am I on the mailing list for ARIPUC still? I hope so, as I have found many things of interest in it in the past. Best wishes from Suzan and me to you and our other friends in Copenhagen. Perhaps we will see each other this summer in Leeds. I hope we will be back in Denmark again before too longl

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With best- regards,

Stephen R. Anderson