Dead linguist

The reason I focus on vocabulary to the exclusion of morphology and syntax is two-fold. The first is that in a language textbook, particula...

The other day, I finished typing in the whole of the Catullan corpus as part of my Catullus project . Sure, I could have just cut and paste...

Latin's got a well deserved reputation among English speakers for having a complex word order. I can't argue that it isn't comp...

And I'm not talking about antiquity. I'm talking about how we present texts. Right now I'm slowly grinding through a Catullus p...

Ancient Roman ship by Valudia So I'm reading Fussell's Abroad right now. Despite being a literary history sort of book, it...

So last night I was working with a student, and I realized that we teach inflectional morphology but not derivational morphology. In fact...

I realized that the verbs for forgetting and remembering have odd morphology. oblīvīscor, ī, —, oblītus sum – to forget —, —, meminī – ...

So this is the result of my discourse analysis class. It might be the best class I've ever taken. Don't get me wrong, the other cl...

So I'm taking a DA class this semester. I'll be honest: the formal linguistics stuff fascinates me. I'm only interested in th...

So in syntax class we've talked about how names in English don't (usually) get determiners and keep their usual sense. *The Peter...