Category Archives: Linguistics

Why does this mean that and other conundrums

A Chinese controversy at USC

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Robert

[I will continue adding links to this post as I find relevant material on-line.] This is a post about an unusual controversy in the United States over the use of the Chinese language in teaching. The controversy occurred at the … Continue reading →

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An index to Hsiao-hsueh k’ao

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Robert

Today I’m posting another recycled paper, an index to a book called 小學考 (Hsiao-hsueh k’ao, pinyin Xiaoxue kao). The link to download the index is here. I compiled this index in June 1991, when I was still a graduate student. … Continue reading →

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Words to live by

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Robert

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. Edward Sapir,Language, 1921.

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