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| Blog Name: | Language Log |
| Url: | http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | linguistics |
| Description: | Language Log is a collaborative language blog maintained by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman. It was started in the summer of 2003 by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum. Other more or less regular contributors include Arnold Zwicky, Benjamin Zimmer, Bill Poser, Heidi Harley, Roger Shuy, Geoff Nunberg, Eric Bakovic, Sally Thomason, Barbara Partee, and John McWhorter. |
| Popularity: | 37 Followers |
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Thinking about thinking words
| Chris at The Lousy Linguist takes up an implicit challenge due to Edward Skidelsky, "Words that think for us", Prospect Magazine, 11/18/2009, who wrote:No words are more typical of our moral cultur...more |
What is this question about?
| Letter to the New York Times on November 30, about a November 21 article on admissions tests for kindergarten in Manhattan (from Willow Partington of Cambridge NY):I hope that the trainers and admi...more |
A gerund too far?
| James Taranto starts out his latest Best of the Web column with some clever wordplay, based on the status of English as a semi-negative-concord language ("He Hasn't Accomplished Nothing", 12/1/2009...more |
Ditransitive prepositions?
| In "On beyond personal datives" (11/5/2009), we discussed examples like "I nearly stepped on me a dog", which can be construed with the "personal dative" me following what Larry Horn plausibly desc...more |
Snuckward Ho!
| According to John "Hindrocket" Hinderaker, "Snuck?", Powerline 11/27/2009:Regular readers know that I have little regard for the New York Times. But I assumed that, no matter how misguided the pape...more |
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