ALMOST ALL WORDS change their meanings. This is one of the aspects of language that is firmly established. It ought to be evident to all of us that words will take on new meanings, as we generally ...
Introduction: Traditions and paradigms / Dell Hymes -- 1. Contrastive beginnings: Very ancient linguistics: Babylonian grammatical texts / Thorkild Jacobsen -- The origin and development of ...
Knowledge of Panoan languages and linguistics has increased significantly over the last several decades. The present paper draws upon this new information to produce a current internal classification ...
Most of my research is in either the history of linguistics, especially American linguistics, or in second language acquisition and linguistic theory. Some of my work spans both these fields. I also ...
I was recently made aware of a fascinating bit of linguistic history, courtesy of the 1661 edition of Thomas Blount's "Glossographia, or a dictionary interpreting all such hard words of whatsoever ...
This is a sequel to the Bibliography of American Indian Linguistics 1936-7 by Morris Swadesh, Lg. 14.318-23 (1938), but differs from the earlier work in certain details of arrangement. Parts I and II ...
Joe Pater’s (2019) target article calls for greater interaction between neural network research and linguistics. I expand on this call and show how such interaction can benefit both fields. Linguists ...