“A filing cabinet full of stuff I have stumbled across. But you can’t keep everything.”
Links
Ursula K. Le Guin: On Rules of Writing, or, Riffing on Rechy
“When Rules Are Made to be Broken,” (LATBR, October 6, 2002), John Rechy attacks three “rules of writing” that, as he says, go virtually unchallenged in most fiction workshops and writing classes: Show, don’t tell — Write about what you know — Always have a sympathetic character for the reader to relate to. I read the piece cheering and arguing all the way.
Docear — The Academic Literature Suite
Cross platform software that integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature into a single application
Language Log
A multiauthor linguistics site.
Structural differences between poetic and prosaic genres of Ainu In favour of the corpus-based approach to linguistic typology [PDF]
Here, I am going to argue in favour of the corpus-based approach to linguistic typology, since there are many languages for which the texts of a ‘new generation’, i.e. fully glossed and annotated texts with translations and attached audio files, are already available, and even more will appear in the nearest future. On the other hand, grammars and dictionaries of the majority of the so-called endangered languages, if there are any, are still very far from being complete.