Webography 1.0

Below the jump (click where it says 'czytaj więcej') you'll find the first version of the comprehensive webography of materials. If any links are dead then please let me know

Some more materials may be added, keep watching this space.

Webography

Design features of human languge :

http ://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~swinters/371/designfeatures.html : General list of features

http ://www.mediafire.com/?kr9z6f5kx41kpw0 : My notes for class

Linguistic Relativity :

http ://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/docs/LingRel.annurev.anthro.26.1.291.pdf : A pretty good and comprehensive survey of the ideas involved

ftp ://grey.colorado.edu/pub/oreilly/teach/prosem_lang/Boroditsky03.pdf : Not as detailed as the first link, but okay.

http ://www.mediafire.com/?kwom4f4om46cjcb : My introductory notes (based on first link)

http ://www.mediafire.com/?924up824g7gaum3 : Part two of my notes (based on first link)

http ://www.mediafire.com/?68v382cwdi8mb5x : Notes on the ideas of grammatical and cultural themes

http ://plaza.ufl.edu/hardman/DTPacket/linguisticpostulate.pdf : Packet of materials on the linguistic postulate and derivational thinking.

Weird, but natural, languages :

Pirahã :

http ://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/Everett.CA.Piraha.pdf : Main article on Pirahã

http ://tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_website/news/everett-handout-2006.pdf : Abbreviated presentation

http ://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/pesetsky/Nevins_Pesetsky_Rodrigues_Piraha_Exceptionality_a_Reassessment.pdf : A paper challenging many of Everett's claims

http ://www.mediafire.com/?2oxrmp3va9s9bpx : My notes for class

Riau Indonesian :

http ://sastra.um.ac.id/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/PU-David-Gil-Riau-Indonesian-.-.-..pdf : The author describes his discovery of the language and describes what it is (a language) and what it isn't (slang, pidgin, a figment of his imagination etc)

http ://wwwstaff.eva.mpg.de/~cschmidt/SWL1/handouts/Gil.pdf : Here he describes the 'associative' properties of Riau Indonesian (warning : lots of jargon)

http ://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/wp/2010Yoder.pdf : This paper challenges many of Gil's claims and proposes a finite set of rules which account for almost all of Gil's data

http ://www.mediafire.com/?u1j1ghm6wxgbz07 : My notes for Riau Indonesian

Experimental constructed languages :

Láadan :

http ://www.laadanlanguage.org/pages/ : Lots of materials on the origins and structure of the language including lessons

http ://www.mediafire.com/?l6v30l12e4j1r4p : Part one of my notes on Láadan

http ://www.mediafire.com/?pe4orz6sso80bua : Part two of my notes on Láadan

http ://www.mediafire.com/?c48s18wccy7g4ih : Part three of my notes on Láadan

Loglan :

http ://www.loglan.org/ : A lot of information on the first logical language Loglan including links to downloadable textbooks

lojban :

http ://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojban : More information than you can possibly want or need about lojban

http ://www.mediafire.com/?8kx8gnem3w7sklc : My simplified abbreviated notes on lojban

toki pona :

http ://en.tokipona.org/wiki/What_is_Toki_Pona%3F : Authoritative source on toki pona

From the alphabet of human thought to semantic meta-languages

http ://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/nsm/ : Page with links to information on Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage (NSM)

http ://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/nsm/semantics-in-brief.php : Description of goals of NSM

http ://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/nsm/explications.php : Semantic explications in brief

http ://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/nsm/cultural-scripts.php : Cultural scripts in brief

http ://www.mediafire.com/?3qx6zx4zufq243w : Article by Wierzbicka on emotional universals

http ://www.mediafire.com/?t9k4utcyviass91 : Some brief notes on earlier attempts at finding and/or creating semantic metalanguages

Metaphors and phrames

http ://www.mediafire.com/?zgaw33luyibuhbr : Excerpt from Metaphors we live by

http ://www.mediafire.com/?muo4gpasq23zdbs : My notes on systematic metaphors

Hofstede's model of cultural dimensions

http ://www.mediafire.com/?xc22o8id1xa4xe3 : My introduction to Hofstede's model

Financial linguistics :

http ://faculty.som.yale.edu/keithchen/papers/LanguageWorkingPaper.pdf : Paper on correlation between future tense marking and savings behavior

http ://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3756 : Very harsh criticism of Chen's paper

http ://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3764 : Somewhat more tempered criticism

http ://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3792 : Chen tries to explain his theories to the linguists

http ://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3797 : More thoughts on Chen's paper

http ://www.mediafire.com/?h2m82ww0r9wzbby : My notes on Chen's paper

Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)

http ://www.mediafire.com/?zlmoe9bzy1nso2c : My notes on NLP (meta model and Milton model)

http ://www.mediafire.com/?75dzu3sur1628on : An NLP training guide

The bi-cameral mind :

http ://www.mediafire.com/?s8jddw4mi2bd3mk : My notes on Jaynes's theory