I’m Losing my Science Blogging Edge
March 1, 2012 in Uncategorized
Increasing numbers of Language Evolution bloggers are pre-doctorate students. How must the older net generation feel?
Perhaps like the young upstarts have too much time on their hands …
Yes, it’s a parody of the LCD soundsystem song. Yes, that’s the Laughing Man icon.
The video was made using the Laughing Man RSS ticker I wrote a while ago. Source code here.
It’s getting to the point where I’m considering a whole album of Language Evolution Songs. Anyone else out there have one?
I don’t have one yet, but I’m very tempted to make one now. This will be the best, though. Brilliant.
[...] Going back to Corbett, I try to show that canonical agreement – the clearest cases, but not necessarily the most distributed cases – would be helpful on all counts for the hearer. I’d really like to back this up with empirical studies, and perhaps in the future I’ll be able to. I got through some of the key points of Corbett’s hierarchy, and even give my one morphological trilinear gloss example (I’m short on time, and remember, historical analyses don’t help us much here.) I briefly mention Daumé and Campbell, as well, and Greenberg, to mention typological distribution – but I discount this as good evidence, given the exoteric languages that are most common, and complexity and cultural byproducts that would muddy up the data. I actually make an error in my abstract about this, so here’s my first apology for that (I made one in my laryngeal abstract, as well, misusing the word opaque. One could argue Sean isn’t really losing his edge.) [...]