Mr. Verb

Some readers of this little corner of the cyberverse may be interested in SayWhat: The people's video dictionary . Its founder describes...

Does anybody besides me remember Lexical Morphology?  I guess I'm thinking about it because I just finished teaching intro to morphology...

Need some good news? Then check out this story. The Dictionary of American Regional English is STILL surviving for now. I mean, it's t...

Been a brutal year here in Wisconsin, as the state and the university are being steadily and intentionally destroyed. So, some good news i...

A message from some of the Wisconsin linguists … Folks, Most of you know that  LINGUIST  is now doing their annual fund drive. For fi...

One of our contributors noted a while back the discovery of new Gothic manuscript material ( here ).  The scholars who've done the decip...

My dad has had to listen to me talk about linguistics for over 30 years now, but the other night he asked me what linguists say when people ...

Somebody just told me about looking through the lists of original members of the Linguistic Society of America — they'd talked to someon...

There's a great new project on the development of English in Chicago. It's the Chicago Dialect Project. Check it out on Facebook  he...

Ever start something that becomes so successful you can't manage it at some point? Welcome to the lives of the people who started the S...

Pass the word ... Next Thursday afternoon at the Portland meeting of the LSA, there will be a special session on the Publishing Process, c...

People are talking today, rightly, about John McWhorter's piece in the NY Times,  " Why save a language? ".  But a similar que...