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Category: Linguistics

Le Ton Beau de Ta Hio

September 22, 2008 Leave a comment

Reading about the two translations of the Confucian Ta Hio by Ezra Pound, the earlier one first published in 1928…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Poetry

Semantic cookies

August 25, 2008 1 Comment

Semantic cookies are sold in Akpafu-Mempeasem, central Volta Region, Ghana (among other places) Fieldwork sessions on lexical semantics have become…

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Posted in: Fieldwork, Fun, Linguistics

More visualizations

June 24, 2008 Leave a comment

A visualization of the previous two posts on Many Eyes and Siwu ne Because recursivity is a Good Thing, here…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Software, Visualization

Many Eyes on Siwu ne

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Lots of readers looked at the challenge I posted last week (my blog statistics say more than 450 views for…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Siwu, Software, Visualization

Visual corpus linguistics with Many Eyes

June 14, 2008 10 Comments

I recently came across Many Eyes, a nifty data visualisation tool by IBM’s Visual Communication Lab. It has lots of…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Siwu, Software, Visualization

Adjectives and the gospel in Ewe

May 27, 2008 1 Comment

Previously, we’ve looked at a perceptive account of ideophones in nineteenth-century Ewe by Joh. Bernard Schlegel. But Schlegel was not…

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Posted in: African languages, Ideophones, Linguistics, Mission

Done well: WALS Online

April 23, 2008 7 Comments

Note: An updated version of this review was published in eLanguage on July 15th, 2008. However, that e-journal has not…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Software

The etymology of Zotero

January 25, 2008 7 Comments

Zotero takes it name from an Albanian verb minus some morphology.

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Posted in: doi, Linguistics, Zotero Filed under: etymology

We need Simpler Syntax, but we can do without a Grammar of the Gaps

December 17, 2007 5 Comments

Recently I picked up Simpler Syntax in the library. It is a good read on a very complex topic, and…

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Posted in: Linguistics

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