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Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: Noemon on February 29, 2008, 02:10:59 PM: It occurs to me that it might be nice to have a repository of links to good linguistics oriented sites.

Online Etymological Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/)

Language Log (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/) (thanks goofy!)

Language Hat (http://www.languagehat.com/)

Word Mall (http://verbmall.blogspot.com/)

What else?
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: Jonathon on February 29, 2008, 02:17:01 PM: I've started reading Mr. Verb (http://mr-verb.blogspot.com/) and Motivated Grammar (http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/) recently. For a more prescriptivist approach, there's Bill Walsh's Blogslot (http://theslot.blogspot.com/) and Paul Brians's Common Errors in English (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/) (which I often don't agree with, but I do admire the comprehensive nature of the site).
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: goofy on February 29, 2008, 08:28:12 PM: ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/)

omniglot (http://www.omniglot.com/)

Proto-Indo-European roots (http://www.bartleby.com/61/IEroots.html)

where can I look it up? (http://maxqnzs.com/References.html)

decode unicode (http://www.decodeunicode.org/)
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: rivka on March 02, 2008, 12:13:18 AM: It's been way too long since they're had a new edition, but the back issues of Take Our Word For It (http://www.takeourword.com/index.html) are lots of fun. (The blog has slightly more recent stuff.)
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: goofy on March 02, 2008, 10:05:43 AM: Quote
Online Etymological Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/)
The Online Etymology Dictionary has a list of sources, but it would be cool if they listed sources in the entries themselves. I found (http://bradshawofthefuture.blogspot.com/2008/01/carbon-and-krishna.html) one entry that seemed to be inaccurate, so I wrote to the editor... he didn't know where the information originally came from, but he did change the entry.
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: Jonathon on March 02, 2008, 11:22:26 AM: That's cool. The last time I wrote to a reference book about an error, I got this (http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2007/01/02/editing-chicago/).
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: goofy on March 02, 2008, 07:23:26 PM: That's not the only time I've seen passive progressive sentences called "active". But everytime I try to think about this I get so confused...
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: Jonathon on March 03, 2008, 07:47:28 AM: What's to be confused about?
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: goofy on March 03, 2008, 10:13:56 AM: You mention how Pullum says that "the subject is not being acted on" is not a true passive because it's intransitive. While to me it seems like a phrasal verb.
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: Jonathon on March 03, 2008, 10:39:19 AM: Oh, that one. Yeah, I'm still not quite clear on that, either. But otherwise I don't see passive progressives (like "the cart is being pulled by the ox") as a tricky thing.
Title: Language & Lingusitics Sites
Post by: goofy on March 04, 2008, 05:42:41 AM: Quote
Oh, that one. Yeah, I'm still not quite clear on that, either. But otherwise I don't see passive progressives (like "the cart is being pulled by the ox") as a tricky thing.
No, it's not tricky. It's amazing that CMS got it wrong.