Contents
Parts of Speech | Prepositional phrase patterns in He’s just not that into you
Pragmatics | Deixis (point of reference) in The New Yorker:
Pragmatics | The Cooperative Principle in Seinfeld:
Pragmatics/Syntax | “We who?” English does not distinguish between inclusive/exclusive first-person plural pronouns in Don’t Think Twice
Syntax | Ambiguity in Wreck it Ralph:
Semantics | “Homonym Game” in 30 Rock:
Semantics | Gradable or complementary adjective? in Big Bang Theory:
Historical linguistics | “Modern English” quotatives:
Morphology | Linguist Llama
Morphology | “All the good words”; the psychological reality of the content/function distinction in Friends:
Morphology | The psychological reality of the content/function distinction in The Office:
Phonology | Voiceless labial glides in Family Guy (0:52):
Psycholinguistics | Language separate from thought in xkcd
Sociolinguistics | Singular ‘they’ in Motivated Grammar
Sociolinguistics | Dialect quiz (New York Times)
Sociolinguistics | Steve Harvey defends descriptive grammar and demonstrates code-switching (1:43):
Sociolinguistics | Language attitudes toward loanword pronunciation in Life in Pieces:
Writing systems | Spelling “a lot” in Hyperbole and a Half
Writing systems | Comma splices in The Oatmeal
Writing systems | Punctuation in The Big Bang Theory:
Writing systems | Punctuation in 30 Rock:
Writing Systems | “Feared” Punctuation:
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