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The correspondent, the combatant, and the comic : how moderator style and guest civility shape news credibility
(2010-08)
Tailored within the increasingly competitive news environment, televised interview programs have adopted a range of moderating styles, heralding a rise in "combatant" and "comic" moderators to complement the conventional ...
More Myths
(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Biology and language : a response to Everett (2005)
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Two Types of Locality
(The MIT Press, 1987)
Mapping the Political Twitterverse : Finding Connections Between Political Elites
(2011)
Twitter provides a new and important tool for political actors, and is increasingly being used as such. In the 2010 midterm elections, the vast majority of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and virtually all ...
Minimizing Government: Deletion as Cliticization
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2006)
The rigors of the Minimalist Program eliminate movement operations, traces, and 1980s-style conditions of government. This article emphasizes poverty-of-stimulus problems, reviews lexical government effects, and captures ...
Historical Syntax : Types of explanation in history
(Linguistic Society of America, 2013-12)
This article examines the ways in which explanation has been achieved in scientific work on language change over the last two hundred years. Explanations have come in many forms and at many levels and are greatly influenced ...
The Ecology of Languages
(Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007)
This paper discusses the life-cycle of languages: languages die, new languages
are born, and languages undergo radical changes in form and structure. This paper
considers three changes in the history of English: loss of ...
Multilingualism everywhere
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach
(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Book review of "Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach" by William Croft.