English Language and Linguistics Blog Posts
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Courses of Linguistics at Purdue University
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 23:13:37 -0700
Courses of Linguistics at Purdue University May 17th, 2008 Courses of Linguistics 201 - Introduction To Linguistics 201H - Introduction To Linguistics 311 - Fundamentals Of Phonology And Morphology 315 - Elements Of Phonetics 321 - Foundations Of Syntax And Semantics 368 - Sociolinguistic Study Of African American English 398 - Special Topics In Linguistics I 490 - Directed Reading In Linguistics 498 - Special Topics In Linguistics II 499 - Research In Linguistics 500 - Introductio
Mixing it up
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 23:07:31 -0700
In the past couple days I’ve gotten my first taste of what it’s like to be an ethnic minority. I’m half white and half Japanese. I have to be honest and say I identify more with the white side than the Japanese side, although I do bust out the Japanese side when necessary, for example when engaging in food snobbery. So when I say I’m an ethnic minority here (Sunnyvale, CA), I mean that the white part of me is in a minority. (The Japanese side is too, unless you want to get non-specific and sa
The times they are a changin' - Peter K. Austin
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 21:53:25 -0700
[ from Peter K. Austin, Endangered Languages Academic Programme, Linguistics Department, SOAS] At the Australian Languages Workshop 2008 held in March at the ANU field station at Kioloa (recounted in Jane Simpson's blog post) there was an after-dinner quiz organised by Harold Koch. It consisted of a series of trivial pursuit style questions to identify scholars who had published on Australian Aboriginal languages (some recent, some not so recent). The questions went something like this (some o
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Notizen und Links
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 16:57:13 -0700
Wir haben uns die Forschungsarbeit termingerecht abgerungen, d.h. die Amy darf wieder in gewohnter Qualität RSS-Feeds konsumieren. Was mir gestern/heute Informatives und Spannendes über den Bildschirm geflackert ist: Autsch, das ist teuer: Ma.tt – Don’t Check Your Valuables. Ich hab mal überschlagen, der gute Matt hat da etwa 15.000 Euro “verloren”, abgesehen vom ideellen Wert natürlich. Herzliches Beileid dazu. Kinder, lasst euch das eine Warnung sein! Alle Wertgegenstände gehören, wenn nicht
Tip-top lapnets on your desknote
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 16:49:33 -0700
As far as I can tell, the term desktop computer originated as a way to designate a computational device that could fit on a desk, as opposed to the larger variety that, my elders tell me, took up entire warehouses and required something like an entire army Santa’s elves to operate. Now, though, the more common distinction is with laptop computer. Now, a laptop is also called a notebook computer, and while I’m not sure exactly what the differences in usage are, there are some cases where you wo
Burma in 1958
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 15:45:08 -0700
Burma in 1958 The Atlantic?—?even as they wait many weeks to get their currently-in-print magazine online?—?has put online their 1958 feature on Burma. It at least worth a quick glance. I thought this bit, from the section on naming, was interesting: One or more of a Burmese child’s names is almost certain to show the day on which he was born—a survival from our belief that human destiny is linked with the stars. Certain letters of the alphabet are ascribed to each day, so that a “Thursday’s
The loss of mediofinal 'h' in Pre-Proto-Etruscan
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 13:00:08 -0700
I recently suggested that the virtual absence of mediofinal "h" in Etruscan is a feature common to both Lemnian and Rhaetic as well but it may not be clear to my readers why I'm insistant on that idea, so let's discuss. Just to be sure, I looked up in my database what words contain medial h. Of the more than thousand entries I have, I came up with only two results: cehen 'here before' and the
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Obama Hits the Sweet Spot?
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 12:24:48 -0700
There are a lot worse things to be called than “sweetie,” and if you’re a woman, you’ve probably heard most of them. It is, after all, a term of endearment. Sweet-tasting foods weren’t always easy to come by, making sweetness especially prized and no doubt accounting for the association of sweetness with affection. The word “sweetie” dates back to 1721, when it meant “candy drop”; in the form “sweet,” the endearment seems to be as old as the use of the word to mean “sweet-tasting food." In ot
Ew! Get it off!
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 08:33:31 -0700
What is the deal with, "Take this off my iPod!!!!" ??? Are tired podcasts like scary bugs? Disease? I am a relatively fervent Mac user. 60%How Addicted to Apple Are You? When I married my husband, I asked him if he would give me an iPod as a gift. It's not that I'm not sentimental or romantic; I just really wanted an iPod. Since then, the daughter has acquired a pink iPod nano and the husband, a mild PC user, decided he wanted a black iPod classic. As a result of the order of events of iPod ac
How do you say…?
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 07:39:56 -0700
I noticed an interesting statistic today in the New York Times (see also, the original article): every two weeks, a language goes extinct. Most of these are indigenous languages that simply fall out of use because of the dominance of English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, or some other widely-spoken language. Most of these languages have no written form, and as such don’t leave any written artifacts, dictionaries, clay tablets, or any of the linguistic detritus such as one might find digging
Britspeak for Americans
posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 06:43:34 -0700
Ace - Used to describe something good. ''Shearer's goal was ace!" Anti-clockwise - It simply means counter-clockwise! The British are not against clocks. Really. Aubergine - Eggplant. Blag - To lie or embellish the truth to get something for nothing. 'She blagged her way into the club by convincing the bouncers she was famous.' Bob's your uncle - This is added to the end of sentences and could be likened to the American use of the word 'voila'! For instance if someone is telling you how to
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