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| Monday, June 8th, 2009 | 1:43 am
[urasinova]
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| | Friday, May 8th, 2009 | 8:30 am
[thepieandi]
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Awesome article on Slate about the Klingon language. Highlight is audio sample of a ridiculous agglutination, "nuHegh'eghrupqa'moHlaHbe'law'lI'neS." | | Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | 8:48 pm
[anna_snova]
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Author Stylistics; Fitzgerald; Murdoch
hello, need to write a qualification project on Author Stylistics (on the example of an American and English representative of emotive prose, in my case - Fitzgerald and Murdoch). If you could give me any advice on sources of information, I would be very grateful to you. | 9:42 pm
[tsubasa_en11]
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I'm having my The World's Major Languages' exam tomorrow. However, I'm having problem in finding out the reasons of language death. I tried to google it but no luck. :( Can anyone kind enough to explain to me what makes a language extinct? Or just point me to a source/sources that have better explanation rather than my mere notes which state only four and giving no further elaboration. Any help in much appreciated! Thanks! m(_ _)m Current Mood:  hopeful | | Friday, April 24th, 2009 | 2:55 pm
[_delly_]
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like as if
Hi there! I'm doing a research on comparative constructions in the English language. While gathering material for my project, I came across several examples of the following kind: she was like as if she knew somehow how matters had gone on, and had a spite at her Make like as if you're beckoning her. See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it'd been summer. Actually feels like as if you've eaten one. I have to you know, and, and besides, when I come out of there I look like as if I've been . What do you think about these examples? Do you think there will be any change in meaning or any other aspect (style, emphasis) if either like of as if were omitted? Can this use be considered dated? Or formal? Thanks for any suggestions. | | Friday, March 20th, 2009 | 5:44 pm
[meavita]
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Question for linguistics students
Has anyone gone into grad school at the masters/doctorate level for linguistics (of any kind)? I would like to know from a student's point of view what it entails (the courses, the research) and what kind of jobs it can lead to (aside from professor). Please email me at antiquitas@gmail.com Thanks :) Current Mood:  contemplative | | Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | 2:45 pm
[mrbea] |
semantic ambiguity question
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knew of any examples in which lexical and/or semantic ambiguity (at the word or sentence level) had resulted in (or could potentially result in) real-world problems? Or situations/settings in which people ought to be aware of the issue. Admittedly I'm writng a paper on the topic, which is wonderfully interesting but I'm feeling a dirth in the area of what-it-means-to-the-average-person. So far I just have SA as it relates to search engine and automated response programs, possible problems in translation (i.e. for translators at the UN etc), and of course newspaper headlines...but that's about it. Can any one point me in the right direction? | | Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 | 10:50 pm
[qiihoskeh]
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negation and quantification
I hope it's ok to ask this here. Does anybody know of a good public site* covering negation semantics with regard to quantification? The same kind of thing with polar questions would be good too. Thanks. * I don't have access to a university or good library. | | Sunday, February 8th, 2009 | 12:29 pm
[torontonina] |
The Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUGS) at the University of Toronto is excited to announce its second annual conference for undergraduates March 27-29, 2009. The Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCon) is a great opportunity to meet your peers in the linguistics world, share your work, and learn; and we invite your submissions. Abstracts should be approximately 500 words in length (not including references), can be about any topic relating to linguistics, and can also be works in progress. Speakers will have the opportunity to speak for 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions following. In your submission, please indicate whether you would like to present a talk or a poster during our poster session. Submissions should be sent as .pdf or Microsoft Word (.doc, NOT .docx) attachments to slugs[dot]tulcon[at]gmail[dot]com by February 13, 2009. Also, keep an eye out for announcements about registration coming up in the near future! If you have any questions, please contact us at slugs[at]chass[dot]utoronto.ca or slugs[dot]tulcon[at]gmail[dot]com. To get more information about the conference, and see some of the topics covered last year, visit our website: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~slugs/ | | Monday, November 24th, 2008 | 11:49 pm
[l_a_r_x]
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| | Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | 9:02 pm
[star_cabaret]
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Clauses that denote sets
Hi, all. I'm trying to find stand-alone(ish) clauses that can be the complements of negative verbs (like doubt or forget) that, most importantly, denote sets. Relative clauses with heads are out because they're part of a determiner phrase/noun phrase. Any ideas for what kinds of clauses I could use? I was thinking maybe the existential "there is" construction could be one, but I'm not sure anything else I could use exists in English. | | Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | 10:33 am
[eck_lesi]
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Hi everyone, I have a technical question. I am looking for a language database, in electronic format, that would allow data mining. For example I would like to be able to identify all the groups of synonyms in English (or Spanish, or French or Russian or Chinese), to make a full list of them, to load this list into my software and to play with it. Does anyone know of a way to access databases like that? | | Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | 5:54 pm
[nord_licht]
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Masters in Computational Linguistics without CS/Math background?Need advice!
Hi to all computational and other linguists! I need your advice! do you think it is reasonable to try to enter a Masters' program in Linguistics, with concentration in computational or corpus linguistics without any significant CS and math background? From your experience, will it be easy to pick up all necessary programming and research skills during the program? Or should I receive some CS training before I apply for such a program? I've got a Masters degree in modern languages (rather, philology) from Europe, so I am pretty good at old-fashioned descriptive and historical linguistics, as well as more applied sociolinguistics and second language acquisition. However, I haven't taken a single CS class yet and my math background is limited as well, although I did an introductory stats class in college. Now I think about switching fields and one option I am considering is computational linguistics, especially NLP or machine translation. Do you know any examples of people with similar background who was successful while specializing in CompLing? or some who failed due to lack of math/CS prep? Also, is there a lot of overlap between computational and corpus linguistics? Thanks in advance! X-posted to CompLing, Linguists | 2:45 am
[monkeykong]
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NaNoisms
Found on the NaNoWriMo forums, a list of "NaNoisms," a collection of bad writing, redundancy, typos, and... something I'm going to call typing errors, even though I just realised that's what "typo" is short for. Anyway those are all interesting for their own reasons, but there's a couple of examples which caught my eye. www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3090907One that struck me was: "Stephen splashed a little water on his face and swilled out his mouth with mouthwaste to take away the taste that the night had left." See, this is similar to a speech error: the word-finding 'stage' in sentence-forming managed to get the first consonant of the word wash right, and then... failed miserably. Common to most adult slips-o'-the-tongue but since children young enough to make speech errors pertaining to the number of syllables generally don't know how to type I'm guessing research would be tough in this area. Still, fascinating: do we form all written clauses in the same way we do spoken ones, do these things occur because we assemble the words letter-by-letter and muscle memory takes over when we stop paying so much attention to where our fingers are going (right now my right thumb hit the spacebar at the end of finger before my left ring finger pluralised it) -- and why does muscle memory decide on word x rather than word y -- or is there a sinister Cylon plot at work? It should be noted that sinister Cylon plots formed the basis for most of my final exam answers. Anyway here are some more to pore over. Nearly wrote pour, there. "'Oh! Alton!' exclaimed the man suddenly, tapping his forward." "Standing in the shadows as he was I couldn't make out his feathers." "His face almost empty, just a faint spork in his eyes indicated sentient life was indeed present." | | Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | 9:19 pm
[wintersweet]
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Crash course in translation theory
If you needed to get up to speed quickly on translation theory for the purposes of writing a paper on how, say, dialogue is translated in TV shows or popular novels, what would you read? I can google "translation theory 101," of course, but I would really love your specific paper or website or book recommendations. Thanks a lot. (P. S. If my question is deeply stupid and needs rewording or additional information, please let me know gently...it's been a rough week.) Current Music: Euchari - Garmarna | 1:25 pm
[brokenhallelu]
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semantically vacuous words
I'm having trouble understanding my semantics course and I met with my prof to talk about it...I understood it when he explained it to me but now I think I'm confusing myself again. In a sentence like "John is a grey cat." As of right now we are treating "is" as inert and "a" is semantically vacuous. Would the lexical axiom for "a" look like this? [[a]]=λf ε D <e,t> . f So how do I treat "is"? Thanks! (I may x-post this to linguaphiles) | | Monday, October 6th, 2008 | 10:10 pm
[prlondon]
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"Risk certain death"
Heard the expression "risk certain death" on a BBC documentary. It's a common enough expression, but is it grammatically correct? If an outcome is certain, how is it possible to risk it? Shouldn't it be "Face certain death?" | | Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | 2:04 pm
[nlwrykyy] |
Writing direction
So here's a question hopefully everyone can have some input on: Is there any true significance on writing direction and why did the western nations change the direction from right to left to left to right? Seeing as Greek is descended from systems that employ the former, and Latin descended from the Greek, what purpose does it serve to change the direction, if any? Update: My own little observation - the writings of people with more polytheistic leanings tend towards left to right systems, while extremely monotheistic use right to left. This is seen even in christianity, where the concept of god is sort of split into three, but neither in judaism nor islam does this division occur. And aren't the various writing systems of India also left to right systems?... Also I do realise that there are some polytheists who use right to left systems, but in terms of large majorities, this is certainly a trend. | 12:36 pm
[seilens]
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Syntax Grad Programs
Since it's about that time of year again... What are some US grad programs (Ph D) you recommend for syntax? Extra points for programs that have professors working with anaphors/binding theory or interested in that area. Heck...some suggestions for programs in Canada/UK/Germany are welcome too. Thanks! |
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