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• In the Mail

  
  ?? ????? — Authority: 457
  Many thanks to Brill for providing me with a copy of Stéphanie J Bakker’s The Noun Phrase in Ancient Greek: A Functional Analysis of the Order and Articulation of NP Constituents in Herodotus (ASCP 15; Leiden: Brill, 2009). I actually received it a couple weeks ago, but I’ve been too busy to post lately. ...
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• Accordance & Syntax

  
  ?? ????? — Authority: 457
  As someone who has a highly vested interest in syntax databases, I’m excited to hear David Lang say that Syntax databases will be coming to the next version of Accordance. I will be giving a presentation at BibleTech: 2010 on the very subject of Syntax databases currently titled “Greek Syntax Databases: ...
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  The Valve — Authority: 541
  
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• English Today for free

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 125
  No, that doesn’t mean you can use the language without charge for 24 hours only (like the name “Jaffa Cakes”, someone forgot to copyright the English language and must be kicking themselves now), but rather that the journal English Today is available this month for free in order to celebrate reaching 100 readers ...
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• PML-N and MQM alliance returning to Zia’s roots

  
  Indus Asia Online Journal (iaoj) — Authority: 485
  LINGUISTICS AND NEW PROVINCES – PML-N and MQM alliance returning to Zia’s roots by: Iqbal Tareen Javed Hashmi is either desperately fishing to carve a new political platform where he can clearly distinguish himself or PML-N has thrown a bombshell to shakeup PPP-ANP-MQM ruling coalition in center and in the ...
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• Thanksgiving link roundup

  
  Glossographia — Authority: 110
  Today, most of my colleagues are toiling away in an attempt to cook and carve some sort of fowl. Me, well, I’m Canadian, and even though I work over in the Dark Nether Reaches and get to enjoy its three-day week, I live over here in Canada’s Deep South and get to … have a flu shot and catch up on posting some ...
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• Humanities GIS Survey

  
  arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts - Engage with digital learning and research — Authority: 131
  Start: 25/11/2009 - 16:00 End: 30/11/2009 - 23:50This is a reminder that our survey on the use of GIS and other spatial technologies in the humanities will close on November 30th. We would be very grateful for your responses to this, it should only take 10-15mins. If you have not already done so please complete it ...
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• Is Multitasking Limited by a Mental Bottleneck?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  Next to the many amazing feats our brain pulls off daily, its inferior ability to juggle a few simple tasks sticks out like a sore thumb. [More]
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• A REALLY Interesting read!!

  
  All About Me And A Bag Of Chips! — Authority: 127
  The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English "Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop tothink about where the words we use have come from? Have you everthought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic,French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and marmalade just ...
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• A new study sheds light on the origins of language

  
  My Green Meadows — Authority: 440
  Harpo Marx via last.fm A new study sheds light on the origins of language   // According to new research funded by the national Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), your ability to make sense of Groucho ’s words and Harpo ’s pantomines in an old Marx Brothers ...
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• Source for construction industry lingo?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  Can anyone point me to a resource where I can learn construction industry-related lingo? Im a defense attorney and Ive recently been pulled onto a few cases involving accidents on construction sites. There is a lot of terminology tossed around in the documents Im reviewing, and I could use some help making sense of ...
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• The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw

  
  Pick of the Literate — Authority: 419
  The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw Move over Da Vinci Code, another new Vatican centric novel. Mix together a hidden secret, a rogue Cardinal, a world renowned linguist, a TV producer and a Russian cop and you get a mélange of excitement. A simple translation assignment thrusts a college professor into a ...
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• Knowing when to say no

  
  altering labyrinth — Authority: 412
  .. or nein or nee . Dearest daughter mentioned at lunch she would like to learn Dutch beside German and English. I said two languages might be more than enough for now, but she insisted I tell her the Dutch for table ( tafel ), fork ( vork ) and knife ( mes ), making the astute observation it all sounds a bit like ...
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• German word of the day:

  
  altering labyrinth — Authority: 412
  Katzenkindergartenerzieherin n., definition pending, as coined this morning by a Mutterkatze of my acquaintance. I guess you had to be there for this to make any sense. I’m merely curious if this will add any traffic from google searches.
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• Linguist Uses Klingon Knowledge to Mess With His Child

  
  Asylum India — Authority: 141
  Filed under: Weird As we all know, if theres one plus side to having kids, its that you get a tiny little human to completely mess with. 15 years ago, when dArmond Speers had a child, he decided he should grow up in a bilingual home -- his wife would speak ... Read more   Permalink  |  Email this  |  ...
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• Thats what they said

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English is a searchable collection of almost 2 million words of transcribed spoken English from the University of Michigan, including student study groups , office hours , dissertation defenses , and campus tours . Researchers use the Michigan corpus to investigate ...
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• How things have changed…

  
  Language Log — Authority: 654
  In todays Stone Soup, Val tries to catch up: The previous few strips sketch her motivation: But even among young people, texting became popular in the U.S. only a couple of years ago, more than five years after it became widespread in Europe and Japan. See " Whats the difference? " (3/10/2008), ...
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• Georgetown alum attempts to teach son Klingon, working on Klingon-English dictionary

  
  Vox Populi — Authority: 583
  Raising your children bilingual is pretty common, but one Georgetown grad took it to the next level. D’Armond Speers (GRD ’02), who earned a doctorate in computational linguistics at Georgetown and is a big Star Trek fan, decided to raise his newborn son speaking only Klingon, according to TrekToday.com . ...
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• Dell Hymes, 1927-2009

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  Dell Hymes, a giant of sociolinguistic theory, has died. "He didnt have much patience for wasting your time in academic endeavors that wouldnt have a direct relevance for the world and for righting some of the inequalities in the world," [Dr. Nancy] Hornberger said. Or as Dr. Hymes himself put it, describing his ...
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• Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 115
  So I was looking on the internet for something else, and as it often happens, I came across something unrelated to what I was looking for but which nonetheless had value for another problem that I pondered on several moons ago, the origin of the intervening PIE sibilant in a sequence of adjacent dental plosives *-TT- ...
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