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[specgram]

The October 2023 Issue of Speculative Grammarian

The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including some, uh, timely musings on large language models from our Editor-in-Chief, a wind-breaking... no, wait... breath-taking introduction to the explosively burgeoning field of Flatu-linguistics, and a happy little diversion for you at your next academic conference: a conference-themed treasure hunt!—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, breaking news, limericks and other poetry, serendipitous fieldwork, linguistickish puzzles, and more...

[hufflepuffhabs]

Being a linguist means starting random language courses on Tuesday night.

[yvanspijk]

The etymology of the word beer is debated. Some connect it to Germanic *bewwan (yield; barley); others assume a borrowing from Latin *biber (drink). Kroonen (2013) derives it from *beuran, a dissimilated form of *breuran, itself a derivation of *brewwanan (to brew). Here's how it evolved in five West-Germanic languages:

[cuchufletapl]

It's so fun (horrible) trying to find a book in a library that you don't know how to navigate yet 🙃

[cowtoolsfanart]

Umberto Buccioni would watch mouth agape, clutching the phone in his hands.

actually THIS is the only good tiktok

[franticbindings]

Nontraditional houses to haunt: family line of nobles, legislative assembly, portion of the sky (astrology), part of a restaurant (front or back), specialty dish at a restaurant, coffee shop, music genre, casino, place of worship, publishing business, the audience at a theater

[hinotorihime]

if you gave me enough cocaine i bet i could solve linear a

[unhonestlymirror]

Passed my linguistcs exam, hope I'll get 10/10 🫠🫠

[shortkinglink]

omg could u tell me what studying linguistcs is like?? im thinking of doing it next year 👀

it's SO much fun omg i absolutely adore my linguistics course!! phonology/phonetics are a bit rough since it's a completely different way of looking at language and language sounds but all the other topics that get covered are so immensely interesting, you end up learning so much....for me since im taking an english linguistics course specifically we haven't covered different languages BUT english itself is spoken in so many different places of the world and it can sound so so different even in the same country!! the US is an obvious example but please do yourself a favor and look into accents and dialects from other english speaking countries like Britain and Australia and even non-english speaking countries!! Because people with english as a second language all have beautiful and varied ways of speaking too!!

[getonthebside]

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[yvanspijk]

When Scandinavians had settled after the Viking invasions, many Old Norse words entered English. These borrowings have preserved the Germanic k and g (as in go) whereas these had become a ch and y sound when adjacent to front vowels in Old English. Here are some examples.

[tanzmitmirsblog]

MAGICAL LECTURE

   How can a lecture include knowledge that is both entertaining or entertaining and attractive, as well as educational? Linguistics is a course that covers all of these characteristics, and we all know why. We comprehend how our language is formed, how strong speech may be generated with sentences built by words, and I am sure we are all curious about where these words or sentences originate from, how they are formed, and how they impact the meaning. When it comes to the structural and semantic components of this course, as well as its usefulness to the student, we can claim that it contributes a lot.

    First of all, it aims to explain to the student what linguistics and its sub-branches are. Then it continues with the same morphology with the formation and examination of the words at the bottom of the elements that make up the sentence. Afterwards, it examines the structure of compound words in English while dealing with where words come from in English. After the study of word formation, there are studies on the pronunciation of the word and it deals with the phonetic alphabet. It attempts to show you the vowels and consonants in the English alphabet, and also makes comparisons between letters in English and other languages. The phonology in English is as significant as the word order in this lesson because if we know the phonetics of the letters, we will pronounce the word properly. After the phonology, it examines the syllable structure and syllable types of these words and then investigates the pronunciation and structure of compound words in English. We can exemplify to the compound words such as toothbrush, headache, sailboat, sunflower, backbone, greenhouse, jellyfish, lighthouse, wholesale, and scapegoat.

     The journey that starts with the word expands with the sentence, thus, the sentence structure is examined along with the syntax. Looking into word order in English, this course also compares diversity among other languages. Eventually, a study is made on the basic elements of clauses and phrases in English. All of the previous researches are concerned with the structure of sentences and the words that comprise them. When we analyse at this lesson from a semantic perspective, we can see how it deals with language rather than sentences, words, or phonetics. Linguistics which deals with the various variations of the language examines the factors that change the variety in the language. These factors can be ethnic, social, regional, or socioeconomic. It focuses on languages that have multiple language features such as creole and pidgin, which are formed from the different uses of a language and the interaction of formations between other languages. While researching the history of language, it also investigates its existence in the world. As we know, some languages are in danger of extinction and some have already been removed to the dusty shelves of history and are no longer used today. It looks at closely why languages disappear and tell the measures to be taken to prevent them from disappearing.  

         In linguistics, the subject of meaning is divided into semantics (semantics) and pragmatics (pragmatics). Some definitions of semantics exclude context, claiming that it is exclusively concerned with the meaning of the phrase, word groups, and words independent of context. Language users, use situations, and objectives are not considered in these definitions. The link between the thing and its symbolic design is emphasized, as is the abstract development of meaning in the mind. Pragmatics, on the other hand, is viewed as meaning in context or usage, stressing that it is concerned with the meaning of language employed in a context. Syntax is concerned with the order relationship between signs; semantics is concerned with the connection between the sign and its meaning; and pragmatics is concerned with the connection between the sign and the one who sees and understands it. With this reasoning, it is evident that syntax deals with the order, order, and order of language symbols, semantics deals with the meanings of language symbols, and pragmatics deals with the connection of language symbols with users. While this viewpoint constantly correlates pragmatics with context and meaning in usage, it defines semantics by omitting context. The notions of semantics and pragmatics will be recast as context-centred in this study. Because semantics and pragmatics are both concerned with meaning, it may be a logical difficulty to use the term semantics, which may be the generic word for the semantic area, and the other with pragmatics.

       While being concerned with language in terms of semantics, it first examines the formation of meaning in the language in detail at the level of words and sentences, then deals with the elements that make expressions in languages meaningful and correct. Semantics is concerned with the transformation/transformation of things and activities into linguistic symbols as an abstract projection of natural regularities roughly reflecting/reflecting on brain syntax. Attempting to build a theory of meaning only from projections while neglecting the specific environment that generates such projections might be seen as a very problematic point of view. Context is the most basic requirement for communication to occur. The simplest setting has the fewest persons involved. Both sides have a rudimentary understanding of the factors in this situation. There may be personal factors in some cases. Semantic communication refers to the passing and rooting of information between at least two persons. In truth, a human possesses language and communication abilities. It implies he understands root context and post context information, linguistic and communicative symbols, symbol systems, and variables that are appropriate for them. Each language's indexes, semantics, and semantics are unique. These distinctions are much more pronounced among languages belonging to different language families. Languages can become too far apart due to historical, cultural, sociological, and geographical differences. Because not all meanings of a foreign language can be learnt, thresholds of knowledge and meaning skills can be established for semantic and progressive communication. The broad framework of in-class activities may be formed by commonly used root meanings and incremental meanings in daily life, as well as their root context and Artcontext narrative. While semantics and pragmatics are the two basic domains in which meaning is dealt with, context and user are often included in the latter. The first part contains an abstracted image of the user. Instead of semantics and pragmatics, semantics is used. Semantic and incremental lexemes appear to be more acceptable as sub-units of the main term. It may be more accurate to examine both semantics and pragmatics in context rather than only associating the use dimension to pragmatics. Concurrently, context may be handled from two angles: root context and post context. Contextual information may be introduced into foreign language training, giving communication a more unique and natural shape.

    In general, it does not stop counting the benefits for a student, especially for a language learner, because linguistics, which examines how a language is formed, how words are formed, and in which structures and what meanings the sentences give, clearly emphasizes everything that the student needs to learn briefly. Some researchers think that this course will force the student by highlighting the confusing aspects, but the more confusing the better, because to understand a language, it is necessary to analyse it, just like in mathematics, we encounter concepts, symbols, and even formulas, just as numbers dance and confuse in mathematics, linguistics words. If we understand the word, we understand the sentence, we understand the whole piece, and when we solve the whole piece, we can master that language. The student learns how to deal with a language since linguistics provides a lot of possibilities for this. For instance, they can understand how a word is formed and how it is pronounced. The student gains how the language is affected semantically and how the language is formed or whether it is in danger of extinction, they comprehend the relationship between language and actions; moreover, they attain the structure of the word and sentence structure, and studies the alphabet and phonetics of the language they would like to dominate. As a student, I got a lot out of this course because knowing a language so comprehensively was very useful for me, especially the pronunciation of words and seeing how some compound words were formed were effective in my speaking and I can say that I enjoyed doing comparative research with some languages. Studying sentence structure has helped me understand the whole piece, and now I can segment and understand sentences in my mind while reading some articles. Taking this fun and informative class made me feel lucky.

-Tanzmitmisblog

[linguine-linguistics]

“The easiest language to learn is the language you’re surrounded by”

-linguine-linguistics

[protoindoeuropean]

tbf, "areal" is often used precisely to avoid having to talk whether something is a contact feature, a feature of a single dialect or multiple language groups etc.

It is also worthwhile noting that in many other languages that use the same latinate terminology, this word is a noun – for linguistic terminology in particular, German "Areal" was probably very influential and was borrowed into other languages – the equivalent of "language area", "linguistic area", "dialectal area" in English, it can thus be used as a synonym for a language or a dialect.

In the case of onomastic languages the terminology is especially pertinent, as it more concretely refers to the area where the onomastic material is attested, whereas its more general use may be more nebulous. But again, it is often used when talking about dialectally already differentiated linguistic groupings, before the attestation of particular languages, when the author doesn't want to designate that linguistc reality as either a language or a dialect (the latter of which should be and in principle could be used that way – any language is also a dialect and so on – but has unfortunately acquired enough baggage that it isn't often used that way in practice).

But yeah, in any case, as you say, not necessarily local at all.

i don't like the word "areal" at all. area + al?? looks fake, they mean "local". -al is just not a productive suffix.

plus it looks like "a-real" which is also silly but about as silly as area-al

Looked up the etymology on Wiktionary to see if it really is just area + -al, I guess it is. I've never encountered the word outside of linguistics. Wiktionary gives the example of "areal flood warning".

Anyway, not all areal features are in fact "local" as such. Maybe that's why "areal" is used. Areal features are linguistic features that have spread by geographic proximity instead of by inheritance, but some of them can spread quite far. See, e.g., Wanderwörter.

[must-be-mythtaken]

Hey google is there a law against throwing linguistics textbooks at people who claim the sinular pronoun ‘they’ isn’t grammatical?

[danbensen]

My younger daughter still has difficulty with fricatives

She holds up a finger to her lips and says "ffff, kitty it tweeping."

Or

"Khhhh, kitty ik kweeping."