Linguistics in the News Archive
The public interface that allows users to plumb the Google Books megacorpus has been relaunched, and now includes part-of-speech tagging. Read a Language Log post by Ben Zimmer about the latest on this resarch tool: http://lang
A University of Manchester archive set up in 2010 to document, protect and support the languages spoken in one of Europe’s most diverse cities, is now the world’s largest..
An article from Deutche Welle explores the changing landscape of Belgian linguistic differences and its influence on the October 14 municipal elections there. http://www.dw.de/linguistic-differences-color-belgian-vote/a-16303910-1.
Explore the influence of this popular television show on the English language in this Language Log post by LSA Exectutive Committee member Mark Liberman and the associated responses.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4248
This article in the Style section of the New York Times includes commentary from a number of linguistics scholars, including members of the LSA's Public Relations Committee, regarding American's increasing use of British expressions.
MIT linguistics professor and LSA Member Michel DeGraff has received a new grant of $1 million from the National Science Foundation to support his innovative study of the value of native-language instruction in Haiti’s schools.
LSA Public Relations Committee member and author Michael Erard explores the linguistic aspects of writing in this "Draft" commentary published in the New York Times' Sunday Review.
In a remote fishing town on the tip of Scotland's Black Isle, the last native speaker of the Cromarty dialect has passed away, taking with him a little fragment of the English linguistic mosaic.
An opinion article in the online edition of the New York Times, "Which Language Rules to Flout. Or Flaunt?" examines the long-standing debate between prescriptivists and descriptivists.
A recent opinion article in the New York Times by two linguists examines the linguistic elements of political campaign rhetoric in the race for the White House, including an analysis of President Obama's selective use of African American English.