Review of Crystal Gayle’s “Dictionary of Essential Linguistics Vocabulary”; by Jean-Pierre LeBeau; From Volume I, Number 1, of Babel, March 1990 — Seldom does a field so young and controversy-fraught as modern linguistics benefit from disciplined research into its synchronic terminology as much as linguistics will from Crystal Gayle’s “Dictionary of Essential Linguistics Vocabulary”. Students and scholars alike will find Gayle’s work thorough, insightful, careful, and most of all, readable. (Read by Keith Slater.)
Erschienen: 19.04.2013
Dauer: 2:22
An Analysis of easy-Type Adjectives; by A. Word; From Volume CLIII, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, January 2008 — In certain academic circles, there is a well-known category of adjectives, often referred to as easy-type adjectives. These include “hard”, “difficult” and others. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 05.04.2013
Dauer: 4:53
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Saussure and Bloomfield: The Question of Influence; by Tim Pulju; From Volume I, Number 4 of Gaugauh Kamadugha, The Journal of the Linguistic Society of South-Central New Caledonia, August 1991 — One of the more vexed questions in modern linguistic historiography concerns the extent of Saussure’s influence on Bloomfield and through him on American structuralism as a whole. Rather than add to the discussion of that issue, I intend in this paper to point out the importance of another, related, but hitherto ignored question, to wit, what was the extent of Bloomfield’s influence on Saussure? (Read by Keith Slater.)
Erschienen: 29.03.2013
Dauer: 3:33
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Language Made Difficult, Vol. XXIII — The SpecGram LingNerds are joined again by Gabe Olsen, this time for the whole show. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics—with guest Jonathan Downie—the LingNerds discuss whether English is a Scandinavian language, and review a list of the worst words of 2012.
Erschienen: 22.03.2013
Dauer: 29:33
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Review of “Mathematical Games, Puzzles, and Fallacies” by Sydney Lamb; by Henry Morgan; From Volume I, Number 4 of Gaugauh Kamadugha, The Journal of the Linguistic Society of South-Central New Caledonia, August 1991 — Review Article: Lamb, Sydney. 1977. Mathematical Games, Puzzles, and Fallacies. New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc. 71 pp. (Read by Keith Slater.)
Erschienen: 15.03.2013
Dauer: 3:46
The Linguist’s Self-Definer for Humanistic Greek and Latin Lingo; by R.L. Rankin; From Lingua Pranca, June 1978 — vowol harmono / ümlaut / dithsimilation / to back formate / metasethis ... (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 08.03.2013
Dauer: 1:26
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Review of Zhang, Jiannan, “The Relationships between Processes and Participants in Chinese: A Cognitive Approach”; by Jan Vanderkeller; From Volume I, Number 3, of Better Words and Morphemes, The Journal of the Linguistic Society of South-Central New Caledonia, May 1991 — Dr. Zhang seems to be laboring under a strange delusion. To wit, as far as I can tell, he thinks that there are only 300 verbs in Chinese. Where he got this idea, I have no idea, since most people know that there are a total of 307 verbs in Chinese. Even more strangely, he has included in his sample two verbs, kan ‘look at, read’ and chi ‘eat’, which are not even really Chinese, but rather pseudo-Chinese (see Pengyou 1988 for discussion). This means that he includes only 298 of the actual 307 verbs of Chinese in his discussion. (Read by Keith Slater.)
Erschienen: 15.02.2013
Dauer: 2:53
Review of Van Der Fort’s Guide to Field Linguistics; by Webley Louis Severson III; From Volume CLXI, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, April 2011 — Van Der Fort’s Guide to Field Linguistics by J. S. S. van der Fort / Rating: ƛƛƛƛ / ƛƛƛƛ (Underlyingly Good) (Read by Joey Whitford.)
Erschienen: 08.02.2013
Dauer: 4:19
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Review Article: Carmichael, James Grant III. The Structure of Bee Communication.; by James Grant Carmichael III; From Volume I, Number 2, of World of Language, The Journal of the Linguistic Society of South-Central New Caledonia, February 1991 — Truly a breath of fresh air in the recently-stale field of animal communication studies, Carmichael’s book is a pure delight from page one. Apart from his lucidly clear prose and strikingly funny sense of humor, this highly respected author exhibits characteristically lucid analysis and clear formulations of his obviously profound thoughts. Space allows us here to touch on only a few of the books’ many engaging features. (Read by Keith Slater.)
Erschienen: 25.01.2013
Dauer: 2:49
Reply to Kathman (Letter to the Editor); by William D. Pinkerton-Umlaut; From Volume XVI, Number 2, of Psammeticus Quarterly, February 1989 — Attn: Editors / I have never been so insulted as when I read Dave Kathman’s thoroughly unfounded attack on my work and character. I shall not even deign to defend my theories—any unbiased reader of my book will certainly see that they are well-founded and insightful. However, I must protest K’s depiction of my work as full of savage “ad hominem attacks”—but that’s the sort of unfounded charge you can expect from a self-important half-wit like K. An ego the size of his, when paired with a brain the size of a walnut, will naturally belittle that which it could never hope to understand. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 18.01.2013
Dauer: 1:24
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