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Brief history of the OED
How do they behave?
Verbs: time, tense, and aspect
Nouns: Case
Modifiers: degree, agreement
What are words?
The gen in genial
Meaning and function words
Can we depend on them?
Why do they keep changing across time?
In Meaning
In Sound
Do we have words for what other cultures think is important?
Words of selfhood and knowledge
Words of social relationship
The stories of right and wrong
Is it reasonable to be fair?
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The Motive for Metaphor
Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Swadesh List
Language in a Petri dish—Pidgins and Creoles
Words (mainly English)
Brief history of the OED
Three pages from my course about the OED are available at this address:
https://sites.google.com/view/tamingwordstheoedandsamueljohn/home
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