RE: Have you ever felt the need to create a new word?

Subject: RE: Have you ever felt the need to create a new word?
From: "Melissa Nelson" <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:41:47 -0400


Awww...THANK YOU SO MUCH...when I took a couple of history of language courses as an undergrad we read Steven Pinker's books, and it must have been a poor semester and I sold them back, and ever since I could not for the life of me remember his name and as soon as I read it...I was like, THAT IS HIM!!! Thanks so much!

Melissa

From: "Sean Hower" <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com>
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Subject: RE: Have you ever felt the need to create a new word?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:57:45 -0700


> Melissa Nelson asked:
> Does anyone on here have a good book on the history of
> language, something more in depth than grammar etc.

Sorry if chiming in late. Any good historical linguistics book will include:

* An overview of how language changes, including phonemic, morphemic, grammatical, syntactic, and semantic (yes, language does change in all of these areas and in a "predictable," systematic way)
* A survey of language families and how they have spread
* How new languages form and how existing languages go extinct
* In-depth analysis of several languages and how they change from one geographical location to another and through time
* References for additional information

Just do a search and pick one that sounds interesting. You'll always want to take a look at Stephen Pinker. He'll hit you with a smattering of linguistics and change your view on language, prescriptive grammar, how the brain works, and the nature/nurture "debate."




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