I just wanted to look up some stuff on the questions that a teacher had posed. Since i dont actually have the book, and since one cant search properly in paper books, i googled around instead, and ofc ended up at Wikipedia…
and it took off as usual. Here are the tabs i ended up with (36 tabs):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Hockett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_theories_of_grammar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_typology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative%E2%80%93absolutive_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative_verb#In_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphosyntactic_alignment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative%E2%80%93accusative_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V2_word_order
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_school_%28linguistics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_structure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_Wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_form_%28linguistics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_form
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositional_semantics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-tuple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_set
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_pair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_linguistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_a_White_Horse_is_Not_a_Horse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_linguistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation#Fidelity_vs._transparency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_%28linguistics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_%28linguistics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngeal_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittite_texts
and with three more longer texts to consume over the next day or so:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-form/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compositionality/ (which i had discovered independently)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning/ (long overdue)
And quite a few other longer texts in pdf form also to be read in the next few days.