All Things Linguistic. Doctor... one day. I'm currently a high school sophomore, hoping to go into linguistics (possibly with an emphasis in English or Spanish), and I was hoping if you knew of any good colleges (that aren't like Ivy Leagues) with a strong linguistics department. from Anonymous languagelinguistics: Hii! Great, that’s so cool, I’m from the UK though, and don’t know so much about American colleges.I’d say that most higher education places will have a strong linguistics department, but they’ll usually differ in their specialism?
I know Lancaster University specialise in corpus linguistics (I’ve met some people that go there) and a lot of their modules seem to be related to it. It’s hard to pick, because you might not know which branch of linguistics you like. Go visit different ones, even the ones you might not think you might not get in to/ that you’re not sure about from the prospectus, because it’s always good to get a feel of the place and know what you don’t like from a uni and go from there. BadLinguistics - If you are going to broadcast your views about language, you might want to get a few things straight first. Lingua Franca. In the greatest English theatrical comedy of the 19th century, a peculiar series of events involving an infant and a handbag are the subject of an 11th-hour confession by one of my favorite literary inventions, a governess named Miss Prism. There are many reasons to love Miss Prism, among them the fact that in her youth she wrote a three-volume novel.
Like all of Oscar Wilde’s creations, she has more than a bit of the playwright in her (Miss Prism is given to saying things like “I speak hort… A new semester of classes started at German universities this week, which means I’ve spent the last few days asking fresh rounds of students about their language goals. The greatest number in any class want, above all, to improve their speaking skills. But a significant group has also mentioned vocabulary expansion. Given that most of the students are on course to complete master’s degrees in the natural sciences, mathematics, or engineering, which at the Technical University of Munich means mos… Languagehat.com. Language Log. Languages Of The World | A Language Blog by Asya Pereltsvaig.
Christopher Culver’s Linguistics Weblog. Preparing to study Mongolian from Krueger’s An Introduction to Classical (Literary) Mongolian (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 3rd edition 1993), I’ve been re-reading the Routledge Language Family Surveys volume The Mongolic Languages ed. Juha Janhunen. Below are some musings on and follow-ups to trivia within. Examples of some crucial [Khalka] consonant contrasts: ad [at] ‘demon’ vs. at [aʰt] ‘castrated camel’; dal [taɮ] ‘seventy’ vs. tal [tʰaɮ] ‘steppe’. So modern Mongolian is one of those languages that, instead of a voiced–unvoiced distinction in dentals that I could actually pronounce, has an aspirated–unaspirated distinction that I’ll never get down.
That’s a damn shame. [Turkic borrowings in Mongolic] often show a specialized meaning, whereas the native [Mongolic] words have a more general semantic profile, cf. e.g. Mongolic *xüsün ‘hair’ vs. The ordinary Chuvash word for ‘hair’ today is ҫӳҫ. Mongolic *kerbish ‘brick’ ← Common Turkic *kärpič Mongolic *köper > *köxer ‘proud’ > ‘happy’ vs. The Fun of Language and the Language of Fun | Olga Kagan's blog on language and communication.