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bringing you linguistics with cats 😻 & sharing language insights that are purring with cattitude to make you smile.😸
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Generative Grammar Explained: Climbing the Syntax Tree with Cats (opens the original)
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Meowza hooman, Let me introduce you to Syntax Kitty. Syntax Kitty is this issue’s mascot connecting cats and grammar for us. Syntax Kitty is taking us by the hand (paw?) and guiding us through yet another way of describing grammar. Now get comfy in your cardboard box 📦 and take your catnip 🌿 out. It’s time for the fortnightly newsletter, which is all about syntax. Purrspectives in Language — Linguistics through the cat lens <a class="image-link image2 is-vi
From Meowlogisms to Method: A Linguist’s Playful Approach to Research (opens the original)
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Meowza hooman, “There’s method in my madness”. It's Pawlonius in William Shakespurr's Hamlet who says, well, something like that. The correct line is actually "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. (Polonius, Act 2 Scene 2)" . Yet, this is so often misquoted as "There's method in his madness" that we can take that misquote further and make the "Six Step Sampling Purrogramme" out of it.Now get comfy in your cardboard box 📦 and take your catnip 🌿 out. It’s time for the fortnigh
Grammar. How to analyse the structure of phrases and sentences (opens the original)
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Meowza hooman, I can has grammarz? What is possible to say for a LOLcat is not possible in human English. But this newsletter is not about grammar pedantry, it's about how to analyse the structure of phrases and sentences. In that sense, we can has grammarz. Now get comfy in your cardboard box 📦 and take your catnip 🌿 out. It’s time for the fortnightly newsletter, which is all about grammar.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PY1L!,f_auto,q_
Pawtify: The Purrfect Playlist for Cat Lovers (opens the original)
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Meowza hooman, The connection of cats and music is not so obvious when we listen to music. But let’s go down the rabbit hole of cats in music and you’ll see that there is a subcategory of feline-inspired songs. Now get comfy in your cardboard box 📦 and take your catnip 🌿 out. It’s time for the fortnightly newsletter, which is all about music to celebrate International Cat Day. Purrspectives in Language — Linguistics through the cat lens <a class="image-link
Words, Words, Words. The Art of Creating New Words (opens the original)
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Meowza hooman,New words regularly enter our language, which is why we are looking at how those are created. This is also part of morphology. 😻 Now get comfy in your cardboard box 📦 and take your catnip 🌿 out. It’s time for the fortnightly newsletter, which is all about word formation processes. Purrspectives in Language — Linguistics through the cat lens <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f0YO!,f_auto,q_aut
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