Author Topic: Language & Lingusitics Sites (Read 2181 times)

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

Language Log (thanks goofy!)

Language Hat

Word Mall

What else?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1 on:** February 29, 2008, 02:17:01 PM »

I've started reading Mr. Verb and Motivated Grammar recently. For a more prescriptivist approach, there's Bill Walsh's Blogslot and Paul Brians's Common Errors in English (which I often don't agree with, but I do admire the comprehensive nature of the site).

goofy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 29, 2008, 08:28:12 PM »

ethnologue

omniglot

Proto-Indo-European roots

where can I look it up?

decode unicode

rivka · « **Reply #3 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 are lots of fun. (The blog has slightly more recent stuff.)

goofy · « **Reply #4 on:** March 02, 2008, 10:05:43 AM »

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Online Etymological Dictionary

The Online Etymology Dictionary has a list of sources, but it would be cool if they listed sources in the entries themselves. I found 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.

Jonathon · « **Reply #5 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.

goofy · « **Reply #6 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...

Jonathon · « **Reply #7 on:** March 03, 2008, 07:47:28 AM »

What's to be confused about?

goofy · « **Reply #8 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.

Jonathon · « **Reply #9 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.

goofy · « **Reply #10 on:** March 04, 2008, 05:42:41 AM »

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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.