Over the past year, I’ve been off-and-on reading Julia Falk’s Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from […]
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When we talk about the semantics of prepositional phrases, we are talking about a specific kind of conventionalized pattern. Conventional patterns are arbitrary in the sense that they are not predictable from one language to another. But in another way, they are nevertheless motivated (Sweetser 1990). There is a reason they occur as they do. Basic cognitive processes influence how different prepositions extend from spatial meanings to more abstract ones.
“It is no exaggeration to say that more has been learned about languages in the past twenty-five years […]
Editor’s note:The following is an excerpt from an early draft of a chapter on the history of linguistics […]
Recently, in a discussion with a friend, I noted that there is often a knowledge gap between the […]
Notes on grammatical gender that I’m trying to not make boring. English speakers usually imagine this stuff only matters for very narrow and wrong reasons. Part I.
The response to my proposal for a linguistics reading group last month went way beyond my expectations. Clearly, […]
This piece was originally published in 2017. I decided to republish it after expanding its discussion. There’s a […]
Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog, Old School Script. We have taken over its […]
I found the table of contents for The Article in Post-Classical Greek, edited by Daniel King, thanks to […]
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