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Making assumptions to make progress
I’ve recently been reading Anna Basso’s Aphasia and Its Therapy. I found this passage interesting where she states that it is sometimes necessary to make assumptions, whether or not one believes them to be true or can prove them to be true, in order to progress: The use of pathological data for the study of…
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When the experts disagree – Information structure edition
I’m catching up with my blog reading from last week. Kris Lyle brings up an interesting case in which two experts on New Testament discourse disagree with one another from John 15.7. I have no particular interest here in whether Levisohn or Runge is correct about the information structure of the verse, but what I…
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Bandicoot Cabbagepatch
Did you know clicking the link that this post was going to be about Benedict Cumberbatch? Gretchen McCulloch, a graduate student in linguistics at McGill University and blogger at All Things Linguistic, explains the Benedict Cumberbatch name generator here and here and why some of the names generated work and some don’t. I admit some…
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Happy Holy Days
Dear angry people of the internet, This is just your annual reminder that the word “holidays” as in “happy holidays” has religious origins in the words “holy days.” As a Catholic, we still have “holy days” that correspond to what some people call “holidays.” Perhaps the religious origins are less overtly obvious than “Christmas,” but…