Office hours for the week February 6-10, 2012

My office hours for this week are:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (3 days!)

12.00-13.30 209b (times slightly approximate)

If I'm not in 209b then I'll leave a note on the door about where I am.

Office hours for the week January 30 - Feb 3, 2012

My office hours for this week are:

Wednesday February 1,

17.00-18.00 209b

Thursday February 2

12.00-13.30 209b

If I'm not in 209b then I'm somehwere around the institute and will leave a note on the door of 209b.

Getting a signature

 First, for more info on toki pona, see this site.

Okay here are the rules for signatures etc.

If you have four or fewer absences (through 12.01.26) :

zaliczenie – basic number of points = nothing more

extra 2 points = one essay

exam = 2 essays

If you have five or more absences add one essay to each of the above.

Essays are by student choice but no student can do more than one essay from a subject area.

Essay topics are found below the jump

If you want some materials on Laadan (which I've spoken about in class) then look:


here and here for some information how and why it was created


here for some basic structural information.


More information on the language can be found here.

Here is some basic information on lojban, with more information here.

You can find lots of info on Loglan here.

Grammatical and Cultural Themes (notes)

Here are notes on grammatical and cultural themes.

Blast from the past! (Piraha notes)

Here are some long delayed preliminary (and kind of crude) notes on Piraha.

Here is an article challenging many of Everett's claims.

As it turns out, the Piraha do have a word for 'publicity picture'....

Linguistic relativity - second post

Here is part two of the notes on linguistic relativity.

No, I don't know what this is either.