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August

• Word recognition and deep orthography in English

2006

December

• Hit the Links

• ‘On Language’ 12/20: Best language books of 2006

• You say potato, I say ‘gheauphtheightough’

• The ‘literal’ truth

November

• Imposing conformity onto do-it-yourself encylopedia democracy

October

• An article that should be Pullum-ized into submission

• ‘On Language’ 10/18: If U chat, not everyone speaks your language

• Pretty Good Puns

• ‘On Language’ 10/4: Woe is `me’: `Myself’ now the object of our affection

September

• Ladefoged books on phonetics at Google Books

• ‘On Language’ 9/6 - When is a ‘planet’ not a planet?

• Bookshelf: ‘Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek’

August

• Bookshelf: Learning Biblical Hebrew

• Geoff Nunberg on the Colbert Report

• Singular ‘they’ in the KJV

• Bookshelf: ‘Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory’ and ‘The Order of Prepositional Phrases’

• ‘On Language’ 8/2: Too much ‘meta’?

• Writing and Linguistic Change in Catalan

July

• Verb types in Hemingway vs. Johnson

• Bookshelf: ‘The Syntax of Early English’ and ‘Gender Shifts in the History of English’

June

• ‘any’: problem with that

• Three Cheers, and Two Articles, for Descriptivism

• ‘On Language’ 6/21 - Some advice about advice

• Proverbs 27:4: Aramaic 1, Septuagint 0

• Idiom-less threat from Iranian president?

• Bookshelf: ‘The Syntax of Spanish’

• ‘On Language’ 6/7: Frisian: language of my ancestors, sibling to English

• GBooks on German

• GBooks on OE

• The Bible in Asian America

• Vocab lists: ‘one of the most inefficient applications of human cognitive facilities’

• ‘On Language’ 5/31 - These type of questions are tricky

May

• Xenophobia in the U.S. Senate

• Verbal adjective in Luke 5:38

• Bookshelf: ‘WH-Clauses In English’

• Top 10 Baby Names in 2005

• ‘Repair and Relevance of Differential Language Expertise in Second Language Conversations’

• Evidential, raised possessor, and the historical source of the ergative construction in Indo-Iranian

• Translating ‘Hypocrites’ in the Gospels

• ‘The Language of Athenian Democracy in the New Testament’

• More “No word for…” nonsense

• Where there’s smoke, there’s ‘extinguishing’?

• Diagramming a Wendy’s cup

• ‘Inflection and Movement in Old English’

• ‘On Language’ 5/3: No horsing around: English at the racetrack

April

• ‘Additional accusatives in Latin and Ancient Greek: Arguments against arguments’

• ‘On Language’ 4/26 - These invented words didn’t come ‘gladually’

• ‘Yours, Mine and Ours’

• Overheard: Infixation of a Compound Relative Pronoun

• ‘On Language’ 4/19 - ‘Gawkers’ cause traffic jams and etymology puzzles

• Fun With Negation in ‘Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead’

• The English quasimodal ‘have to’

• ‘Making excuses in the future pluperfect tense’

• ‘On Language’ 4/12 - Indigenous languages in Mexico

• at, till, and finite CPs

• Misunderstood and misleadingly edited non-inclusive French NP in The Nation

• ‘On Language’ 3/29: Irrespective of common use, ‘irregardless’ draws ire

March

• English prepositions in Kenya

• ‘property’ as a verb in Shakespeare

• Auixiliary drop in Early Modern German

• dewater

• ‘On Language’ 3/1: Is e-English ‘evolving grammar’?

February

• Greek text of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata added to Project Gutenberg

• Using iPods in language classes

• ‘Turin’ or ‘Torino’?

• “steer” meaning “rudder” in Chaucer

• Coetzee: author, autor, literatus?

• ‘On Language’ 2/1: “presticogitation

• Word-final consonant clusters, the perfective aspect, and other child linguistic feats

January

• ‘On Language’ 1/18: How Proust used English

• Complaining about graffiti in Pompeii

2005

December

• The FUDGERY of neologisms

• Mutual intelligibility across the Finno-Ugric family?

• ‘On Language’ 12/28: words of the year

• ‘On Language’ 12/21: books of year

• The poetic appositive in Old English

• ‘On Language’ 12/14: The religious roots of ‘holiday’

• C’est francais

• ‘On Language’ 12/7: A Usage Guide for Language Disputes

• The Power of Puns

• Direct Etymological Latin Legacies

November

• Planet Names

• Put it on a Plaque

• On Language 11/16: Verbatim magazine celebrates 30th volume

• ELL students with disabilities

• Bible Translated into Gullah

• ‘On Language’ 11/9/05: A crisis in China isn’t an ‘opportunity’

• Gavin Degraw’s Grammar

• Unintended Indecency at Burger King

• ‘On Language’ 11/2: A sizable book on short words

October

• English: the 18th century underdog to be lingua franca

• ‘On Language’ 10/26: Bring back thou and thee!

• ‘Myself’ as non-reflexive, and the etymology of ‘cockpit’

• “On Language” 10/13: Linguistic evidence for reincarnation?

• “On Language” 10/5: The Errors of ‘Elements’

• The Awful French Language

• Swtiching and Borrowing in Ghanaian English

• “On Language” 9/21: Dictionary invents a word as a copyright trap

September

• “On Language” 9/14: ‘Lost’ in Translation

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• Word recognition and deep orthography in English
• Hit the Links
• ‘On Language’ 12/20: Best language books of 2006
• You say potato, I say ‘gheauphtheightough’
• The ‘literal’ truth
• Imposing conformity onto do-it-yourself encylopedia democracy
• An article that should be Pullum-ized into submission
• ‘On Language’ 10/18: If U chat, not everyone speaks your language
• Pretty Good Puns
• ‘On Language’ 10/4: Woe is `me’: `Myself’ now the object of our affection
• Ladefoged books on phonetics at Google Books
• ‘On Language’ 9/6 - When is a ‘planet’ not a planet?
• Bookshelf: ‘Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek’
• Bookshelf: Learning Biblical Hebrew
• Geoff Nunberg on the Colbert Report

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