Linguistics Whiz

Gil has recently been struggling with a linguistics assignment on 'whiz deletion', and he got me curious yesterday so I Googled it.

(Gil, I don't know if Google didn't occur to you, or what, but the first result for 'whiz deletion' gives a pretty convincing explanation.)

Anyway, during my searches, I stumbled across a masterful piece of linguistic geekery. A lot of it is way more esoteric than even my linguistics-saturated upbringing could have prepared me for, but a lot of it is also pretty funny, especially if you know a thing or two about linguist(ic)s.

Posted by goodladd on December 8, 2005 with category tags of

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Beautiful. Although there's one that just doesn't seem like a joke (Prosodic basis of German vocalic chain shifts). In fact, Google has just led me to the author's homepages with that paper listed. Is this a really intense academic dis?
   comment by Mariana (#35) on December 10, 2005

   

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