I’ve been at a workshop on historical linguistics and reconstruction this weekend, at the University of Michigan. The slides for the paper I gave are available here. This conference is always fun and this year’s was no exception. This paper (when I write it up) will supersede the other things I have put up on [...]
There’s an interesting discussion (as always!) over at Language Hat about prehistory and cultural reconstruction.
Incidentally, my long comment in that thread was originally rejected by the spam filter because it included the word soma. I guess that’s because of the generic drug name. Or maybe the gremlins in the computer are bored with Sanskrit epic.
And here’s another paper on historical complex predicates, this time on the reconstruction of Nyulnyulan complex predication strategies. Comments are again very welcome.
I’m travelling a bit this next week (including to Taiwan to give a talk at a workshop at NTU). In the meantime, here’s the draft of a paper I wrote recently on the historical linguistics of complex predication, concentrating on serialisation and light verbs. Comments are very welcome.
Normal programming will resume shortly.
In the meantime, do you, dear reader, think that calling sloppily applied internal reconstruction glorified syntactic folk etymology is too rude for a respected journal like Diachronica?
Here are the slides for my historical talk at the LSA. Many thanks to everyone who gave me feedback. One point I’ll be particularly following up is Andrew’s question on the extent to which the approach I was proposing overlaps with Wave Theory. There are a number of aspects in common, of course, but it [...]
Does anyone know if there’s a table of contents online for Science of Man (it’s the journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia and sank without a trace in 1913)? Copies seem pretty hard to come by and I don’t think Rice’s library will be too pleased if I ILL the lot.
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