Looking at the preliminary program for the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America shows terrific representation by UC San Diego: nine presentations (out of a total 300) are by UCSD-affiliated researchers. Among other things, this number is ahead of UC Santa Cruz (with four), MIT (five), UMass (also five), and UCLA (seven), tied […]
I encountered Will Lewis‘s Online Database of Interlinear Text (ODIN) for the first time today. What a terrific idea: electronic resources are scarce for the vast majority of the world’s languages, but annotated corpora for these languages are sitting under our noses in the form of glossed examples from linguistics papers. ODIN scours the web […]
May 18, 2007, The New York Times, “Violence Continues in Gaza”: Two rockets fired from Gaza had landed near Sderot, and the government bused many residents to hotels in what it refused to call an evacuation. Interesting how this headless relative clause doesn’t technically contain the information required to identify the referent, but through pragmatic […]