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Negation in English and other languages (Otto Jespersen, 1917)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:20. December 2012
  • Post category:Language/Linguistics/language
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Negation_in_English_and_Other_Languages pdf download ebook free This book is actually very advanced for its age. it contains lots of stuff of interest to logicians and linguists, even those reading it today.…

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Interesting paper: Logic and Reasoning: do the facts matter? (Johan van Benthem)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. December 2012
  • Post category:Linguistics/language/Logic/Psychology
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In my hard task to avoid actually doing my linguistics exam paper, ive been reading a lot of other stuff to keep my thoughts away from thinking about how i…

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Review: Linguistics, an introduction (William McGregor)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:1. November 2012
  • Post category:Linguistics/language
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William McGregor - Linguistics, an introduction - (download, free, ebook, pdf) BALEETED. but piratebay has one!   All in all, this is a fairly decent textbook covering most of the…

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Review of Let’s End Our Literacy Crisis (Bob C. Cleckler)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. October 2012
  • Post category:Linguistics/language
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Let'sEndOurLiteracyCrisis,2ndRev download ebook free This is an okay book about spelling reform. It includes argumentation for why spelling reform is needed. Some useful literature overview and references. Its tone is…

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The redundant use of “myself”, “personally”, and perhaps others

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. October 2012
  • Post category:Linguistics/language
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Here's a random example [source is this book]: A database (DB) is simply a collection of data, placed into an arbitrary structured format. The most common DB is a relational…

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Some thoughts about the principle of compositionality

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. September 2012
  • Post category:Language/Linguistics/language/Logic
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This is another of those ideas that ive had independently, and that it turned out that others had thought of before me, by thousands of years in this case. The…

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Another linguistics trip on Wiki

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:6. September 2012
  • Post category:Language/Linguistics/language/Logic/Math/Statistics
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    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…

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Various quotes and comments

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:8. August 2012
  • Post category:Feminism/equality/Linguistics/language/Philosophy
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inalienable_possession In linguistics, inalienable possession refers to the linguistic properties of certain nouns or nominal morphemes based on the their always being possessed. The semantic underpinning is that entities like…

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Some Wikipedia links and remarks to them

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. June 2012
  • Post category:Education/Linguistics/language
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto It is somewhat depressive that we do not have EO (esperanto) taught as a foreign language in all european countries. The evidence cited in this article in undeniable and…

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A modal fallacy in linguistics

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:13. May 2012
  • Post category:Linguistics/language/Logic
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I'm writing this piece as i have gotten rather tired of explaining this point over and over. Writing an article about it saves me time. The form of reasoning goes…

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