This post is a continuation of a chain of posts detailing concepts which can act as a foundation for new kinds of research in linguistics, bridging the atomic, structural approaches of generative linguistics with the somewhat loose approaches of more modern theories such as Optimality Theory (OT) and Dependency Grammar. In this post, I will…

This post is a continuation of my previous post “Changes in the Natural Philosophy of Language“. I will discuss some ideas introduced by the first of the three researchers who I mentioned there: Ken Stanley. His work is on the topic of evolutionary systems — that is, systems that resemble the process of biological evolution.…

Today is my 1000-Wordiversary for German since I started learning it 50 days ago. For the first time in my life, the effect of my language study habits is rapid, repeatable, and holistic. The fact that I had no sense whatever for the German language 50 days ago, and now am reading somewhat effectively in…

You will have to forgive me that I have no citable sources in bringing up this topic today, only intuition and anecdote. I am traveling to Europe for several months in late July, and one thing I consider as a linguist (it goes without saying) is the language component. Europe in particular has developed a…