Off the Mark

Sunday, 6 Jan 2008
Taylor, Talbot J. 1997. Roy Harris and the Philosophy of Linguistics. Language Sciences 19(1): 1-5.
The introduction to a special issue of Language Sciences that was a festschrift for Roy Harris on his 65th birthday. The issue, entitled “The Philosophy of Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Roy Harris,” contains an additional 9 articles [...]

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Except this is no game to me.
I seem to be really struggling with writing my bibliographical essay and bibliography (primarily as an ancillary issue). I have realized that this is vastly new writing territory for me. There are, in fact, several pieces of writing by me of which I am particularly proud. Many of these [...]

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Sunday, 30 Dec - Tuesday, 1 Jan
Toolan, Michael J. 1996. Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.

Finished Ch. 4: Further Principles of Integrational Linguistics, or, On Not Losing Sight of the Language User

Monday, 31 Dec 2007 New Years’ Eve
Harris, Roy. 2005. The Semantics of Science. London: Continuum.
Got this for [...]

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Harris
At the start of break I found a treasure when I was down in the Basement West stacks looking for another “Harris book”: Harris. Roy. 1990. The Foundations of Linguistic Theory: Selected Writings of Roy Harris. Ed. Nigel Love. London: Routledge.
Actually, I found 2 treasures. The edited volume I had so far overlooked; I [...]

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Ready for writing/research.
Originally uploaded by broken thoughts

Decided to clean up my writing/working areas before I buckle down and attempt to write my bibliographic essay.
Sure. It was a diversion to keep from real work. But this is a diversion that should pay huge dividends. I can actually see most of the desktop and I [...]

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There will be changes in this blog this coming year. Not necessarily, and, in fact, not particularly, intended. Those intended may well not happen.
“Some things read this week, …” posts will likely continue. They will be reconfigured somehow—not yet discerned—by the change in my reading habits, at least through mid-May.
As the year begins, I am [...]

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