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3 unusual facts about linguistics


Bhashaindia.com

The website is broadly divided into two sections: one for end users and another for developers and linguists.

Formulation

Disciplines in which one might use the word formulation in the abstract sense include Logic, Mathematics, Linguistics, Legal theory, and Computer science.

The Vocabula Review

Articles in The Vocabula Review tend to take an anti-linguist, prescriptive view on language, decrying perceived offenses against the English language, and taking a hard line against linguistic innovations and other usages that offend the sensibilities of its writers.


Alexander Vovin

He has also been a visiting professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto (2001–2002, 2008), a visiting professor at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2008–2009), and a visiting professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo, Japan in May-August 2012.

Ames High School

Jeroen van de Weijer, Professor of English Linguistics at Shanghai International Studies University

Amina Alaoui

Amina went to school at Lycée Descartes and studied philology and Spanish and Arabic linguistics at the University of Madrid and the University of Granada.

André Martinet

The Prague School of linguistics was one of Martinet's main influences, and he is known for pioneering a functionalist approach to syntax which led to a violent polemic with Noam Chomsky.

Book of Veles

Most of the scholars that specialize in the field of mythological studies and Slavic linguistics (such as Boris Rybakov, Andrey Zaliznyak, Leo Klein and all Russian academic historians and linguists) consider it a forgery.

Chin Liew Ten

Before taking up his appointments at the National University of Singapore, he was Professor of Philosophy (Personal Chair) and Acting Head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Bioethics at Monash University, Australia.

Count noun

Following the work of logicians like Godehard Link and linguists like Manfred Krifka, we know that the mass/count distinction can be given a precise mathematical definition in terms of notions like cumulativity and quantization.

Dag Gundersen

Dag Gundersen (born 15 January 1928 in Ringsaker, Hedmark) is a Norwegian linguist and lexicographer, dictionary editor and professor.

Eğirdir

However, Eğridir means "it is crooked" in Turkish, and therefore, to remove the negative connotations of the name, in the 1980s the “i” and the “r” were transposed in a new official name, thus creating Eğirdir, a name that evokes spinning and flowers, although many people in Turkey still call both the town and the nearby Lake Eğirdir by its former name.

Fiction theory

Roman Jakobson, a Russian formalist and linguist, was one of the first individuals to discuss art as a way of communication that is intentionally aesthetic, and applied linguistics to analyses of literary texts.

Franz Weber

After his studies of philosophy and linguistics at the Sorbonne University in Paris, he worked from his Paris office from 1951 until 1973.

Georges-Jean Pinault

Transliterated, translated and annotated by Ji Xianlin, in collaboration with Werner Winter and Georges-Jean Pinault, Berlin-New York, Mouton de Gruyter (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 113), 1998, 392 pages, 88 planches de photographies.

Hans Vermeer

He was appointed Professor of General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Mainz in Germersheim (1971–1983).

Illinois State University College of Arts and Sciences

They publish research in Children's Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, English Education and Pedagogy, Linguistics/TESOL, Literary and Cultural Studies, Publishing, and Technical Writing.

Ivan Sag

A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Linguistic Society of America, in 2005 he received the LSA's Fromkin Prize for distinguished contributions to the field of linguistics.

Japanese pronouns

Some linguists suggest that the Japanese language does not have pronouns as such, since, unlike pronouns in most other languages that have them, these words are syntactically and morphologically identical to nouns.

Jimwat

Other songs he has worked on are Mpaka Che with Pilipili, Tunakatika (Sheng for We're Dancing) with Wambo-E and Chakula Kinywaji (Kiswahili for Food Drink) with Jua Cali, which was featured in his album Ngeli ya Genge.

Jooho Kim

Jooho holds MA degree in Linguistics (1984) from the Korea University and Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration (1991) from the City University London.

Juana Muñoz-Liceras

Juana Muñoz-Liceras is Professor of Hispanic and General Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Justine Cassell

She holds a DEUG in Lettres Modernes from the Université de Besançon (1981), a BA in Comparative Literature/Linguistics from Dartmouth College (1982), a M.LITT.

Kanbun

Following these kanbun instructions step by step transforms the sentence so it has the typical Japanese subject–object–verb argument order.

Kārlis

Kārlis Mīlenbahs (1853–1916), the first native speaker of Latvian to devote his career to linguistics

Language magazine

It has often published the works of Stephen Krashen, Aned Y. Muñiz Gracia and Eugene E. García, among others expert in the fields of linguistics and language instruction.

Leonard Bloomfield Book Award

The Leonard Bloomfield Book Award is presented by the Linguistic Society of America to the recently published book "which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics".

Lessac Technologies

LTI was founded in 2000 by H. Donald Wilson (chairman), a lawyer, Lexus Nexus entrepreneur and business associate of Arthur Lessac; and Gary A. Marple (chief inventor), after Marple suggested that Arthur Lessac's kinesensic voice training might be applicable to computational linguistics.

Martín Sarmiento

He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, including Literature, Medicine, Botany, Ethnography, History, Theology, Linguistics, etc.

Mass noun

The work of logicians like Godehard Link and Manfred Krifka established that the mass/count distinction can be given a precise, mathematical definition in terms of quantization and cumulativity.

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Well-known scientists currently based at the institute include Svante Pääbo (genetics), Bernard Comrie (linguistics), Michael Tomasello (psychology), Christophe Boesch (primatology), and Jean-Jacques Hublin (evolution).

Michael Friedländer

His son-in-law was Moses Gaster (1856–1939), the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist.

Midrash

Gesenius ascribes the etymology of midrash to the Qal of the common Hebrew verb darash (דָּרַשׁ) "to seek, study, inquire".

Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam

From November 2004 to November 2008 he worked as Culture Advisor and Linguist for the US forces in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) and from January 2004 to November 2004 he served as a Main Awareness Trainer, Admin and Logistic Officer and Medical Assistant at the Demobilization Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) project of the United Nations in Kabul.

Octahedral molecular geometry

The octahedron has eight faces, hence the prefix octa. The octahedron is one of the Platonic solids, although octahedral molecules typically have an atom in their centre and no bonds between the ligand atoms.

Paris Descartes University

Headquartered in the historic École de Chirurgie in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the university strongly focus on medical sciences (medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, psychology), biomedical sciences (cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, biomedical physic), social sciences (sociology, anthropology, linguistics, demographics, science of education), mathematics, computer science and law.

Paul Kay

He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982 and now working at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).

Plural quantification

Interest revived in plurals with work in linguistics in the 1970s by Remko Scha, Godehard Link, Fred Landman, Roger Schwarzschild, Peter Lasersohn and others, who developed ideas for a semantics of plurals.

Raskovnik

While razkovniche and raskovnik are the customary names in Bulgarian and Serbian respectively and the root is also preserved in the Leskovac dialect as raskov, in some parts of Macedonia it is known as ež trava ("hedgehog grass").

Robert D. Borsley

Robert D. Borsley (born 15 March 1949 in Coventry) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

Scott DeLancey

His work focuses on typology and historical linguistics of Tibeto-Burman languages as well as Plateau Penutian, especially the Klamath language.

Sprachbund

Shared syntactic features include classifiers, object–verb order and topic–comment structure, though in each case there are exceptions in branches of one or more families.

Stød

Some dialects of Southern Danish realize stød in a way which is more similar to the tonal word accents of Norwegian and Swedish, and in much of Zealand it is regularly realized as something reminiscent of a glottal stop.

Syntactic gemination

Proceedings 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, Monash University.

The Cuckoo's Calling

The Times enlisted the services of a British linguistics expert and Pittsburgh's Duquesne University professor Patrick Juola, whose software programme ran four separate analyses of the novel and other Rowling works.

United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad

Olympic athlete Christine Ohuruogu MBE is the patron of UKLO, having completed a Linguistics degree at UCL.

Ursula Acosta

During her summers she took courses towards her Ph.D. at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany and in 1979 earned her Ph.D. in social psychology with minors in linguistics and sociology.

Vladimir Makarenko

He participated in many international conferences, among them International Conference on Linguistics in Bucharest (1967), Seminar "National Build-Up and Literary/Cultural Process in SEA" (1996) in Moscow, Russian-French Symposium on SEA in Moscow (1997), EUROSEAS Conference in Hamburg (1998), ECIMS- XI in Moscow (1999) etc.

Yariv Levin

Levin was born in Jerusalem to Gail and Aryeh Levin, an Israel Prize laureate for general linguistics, His mother's uncle, Eliyahu Lankin, was commander of the Altalena ship and member of the first Knesset representing Herut, whilst Menachem Begin was the Sandek at Levin's circumcision ceremony.

Zdzisław Wąsik

He is the author of 5 books, above 24 collective editorials and above 100 articles, entering the scope of general and comparative Indo-European linguistics, history and methodology of science as well as semiotics and theory of communication.

Zhu Hua

She has an MA in Applied Linguistics from Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学)and was the first doctoral student of the late Professor Qian Yuan (钱瑗), the daughter of the well known Chinese scholars and writers Qian Zhongshu (钱锺书)and Yang Jiang (杨绛).


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