Classics-related links in 2009
- 09 Dec 2009 Latinum
online audio course to learn Latin
- 12 Nov 2009 Loads of zeugmas via Language Log
“Joe Stockley was in an expensive sports car and deep trouble. This time, he had really let his mouth and his exotic foreign lover run away with him and it was getting beyond a joke and his immediate circle of friends in the form of rumours and speculation.
As he ran a red light, the conversation back in his mind and away from his troubles, he couldn’t help but feel a sense of rising panic and the soft matte finish of his hand-stitched leather steering wheel. Angelica had been absolutely right and his wife for fifteen years, so why was he running scared, these kind of risks and this deadly gauntlet of illicit entanglements?”
- 27 Sep 2009
"Joe, who had ventured into the kitchen after me as the dustpan had retired before us, drew the back of his hand across his nose with a conciliator air when Mrs. Joe darted a look at him, and, when her eyes were withdrawn, secretly crossed his two forefingers, and exhibited them to me, as our token that Ms. Joe was in a cross temper. This was so much her normal state, that Joe and I would often, for weeks together, be, as to our fingers, like monumental Crusaders as to their legs." Dickens, Great Expectations p. 23 - Accusative of respect in English
- 09 Sep 2009 World Atlas of Language Structures
online version of the book cataloguing language features across the world’s language
- 09 Sep 2009 Moreland and Fleischer
Unit 14 study tables
31 Aug 2009 Cohesion and coherence - watch the pronouns. From Private Eye.
07 Aug 2009 Schleicher’s fable about the sheep in PIE
31 Jul 2009 Tree of Indo-European - nice visualisation
- 26 Jul 2009 Unlike no other
Overnegation on Language Log
- 25 Jul 2009 In real life he is a charmer, of course
Gricean inferences on Language Log
