Linguistics: Revision history

4 February 2007

• curprev 03:5303:53, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 32,037 bytes +134‎ Generative linguistics
• curprev 03:4303:43, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,903 bytes −3‎ :''Main article: Linguistic prescriptivism.''
• curprev 03:4003:40, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,906 bytes −175‎ Prescription and Description: deleted bizarre Wikipedia personal attack on censors
• curprev 03:3903:39, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 32,081 bytes +3,521‎ Prescription and Description: spacing; italicised 'phonetics' up top
• curprev 03:3803:38, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 32,078 bytes +853‎ Prescription and Description: acrolect speakers; minor formatting
• curprev 03:3403:34, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 32,067 bytes +2‎ == Properties of language == -> Moved down to unite the sections about subfields
• curprev 03:2603:26, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 32,065 bytes +840‎ Clinical linguistics; Genie
• curprev 03:1903:19, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,834 bytes −74‎ Merged comparative and historical linguistics
• curprev 03:1603:16, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,908 bytes +537‎ ==Core areas==
• curprev 03:1503:15, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,891 bytes +519‎ New introductory paragraph for 'The Study of Linguistics'
• curprev 03:0503:05, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,372 bytes 0‎ UG (moved)
• curprev 03:0403:04, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,372 bytes +1‎ Morphology, semantics and pragmatics -> tried to clarify
• curprev 03:0103:01, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,364 bytes +7‎ added a negative to 'Syntax'
• curprev 03:0003:00, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ m 31,357 bytes +1‎ comma
• curprev 02:5902:59, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,356 bytes −15‎ Phon/phon: more reduction
• curprev 02:5802:58, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,371 bytes +146‎ Phonetics and phonology: trying to reduce and simplify
• curprev 02:5102:51, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,225 bytes +3‎ Applied linguistics: trying to clarify the second paragraph
• curprev 02:4602:46, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,222 bytes −3‎ universal (1st para.)
• curprev 02:4502:45, 4 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,225 bytes +2,665‎ First paragraph: another stab at explaning this subject

3 February 2007

• curprev 22:3422:34, 3 February 2007‎ imported>Joshua Tauberer‎ 31,276 bytes +2,700‎ →‎Prescription and description
• curprev 21:0921:09, 3 February 2007‎ imported>Joshua Tauberer‎ 29,225 bytes +649‎ various

2 February 2007

• curprev 03:2903:29, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 28,576 bytes +16‎ German
• curprev 03:2703:27, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 28,560 bytes −2,215‎ ISBN
• curprev 03:2603:26, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 28,540 bytes +185‎ Aitchison reference
• curprev 03:2303:23, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 28,355 bytes +99‎ Chomsky reference
• curprev 03:2003:20, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 28,256 bytes +143‎ References
• curprev 03:1803:18, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 28,113 bytes −3,418‎ Indo-European
• curprev 03:1603:16, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 28,099 bytes +30‎ Modified 'linguistic variation' and 'linguist' links: there seems to be a bug here as just using [ ] leads to an edit page
• curprev 02:5202:52, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 28,069 bytes −3,462‎ Add linguistic variation to 'study' section; cut the 'Variation' section and moved to its own page; modified 'universal' link
• curprev 02:4302:43, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,305 bytes −253‎ Capitalisation and deletion of duplicated 'syntax' section
• curprev 02:4102:41, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,558 bytes +27‎ co-operate
• curprev 02:3902:39, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,532 bytes −183‎ Shortened pragmatics section; ideally these 'core' sections should be quite short and snappy
• curprev 02:3702:37, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,715 bytes +82‎ Cook reference
• curprev 02:3602:36, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,633 bytes +94‎ UG + titled other areas and moved 'applied linguistics': need to distinguish between grammar components (syntax, phonology...) and the topics in which they're studied (language acquisition, etc.)
• curprev 02:2402:24, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,539 bytes +8‎ scientific
• curprev 02:2302:23, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,531 bytes −286‎ removed more duplication
• curprev 02:2302:23, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,711 bytes −455‎ Deleted duplicated info
• curprev 02:2202:22, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 32,166 bytes +349‎ Partial revert: put back and moved info on language acquisition
• curprev 02:1802:18, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,817 bytes +1,042‎ Pinker reference
• curprev 02:1202:12, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 31,643 bytes +868‎ Stab at rewriting the intro and adding footnotes
• curprev 01:5001:50, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 30,775 bytes +30,775‎ Pragmatics: tried to explain and exemplify more
• curprev 01:4201:42, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 30,698 bytes +143‎ Semantics: tried to give examples
• curprev 01:2801:28, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 30,422 bytes −133‎ Syntax: tried to simplify
• curprev 01:2001:20, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ m 30,555 bytes +558‎ pronunciation
• curprev 01:2001:20, 2 February 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 30,554 bytes +240‎ Partial revert: trying to simplify the introduction for laymen and avoid misleading readers into thinking that phonology is just phonetics for the brain

27 January 2007

• curprev 15:3315:33, 27 January 2007‎ imported>Joshua Tauberer‎ 30,314 bytes +1,286‎ Promoted the section on divisions of linguistics, since those categories are just as crucial as the theoretical ones
• curprev 15:2615:26, 27 January 2007‎ imported>Joshua Tauberer‎ 30,633 bytes +1,605‎ Revised the intro to include all of the major subfields of theoretical linguistics

24 January 2007

• curprev 22:3522:35, 24 January 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 28,957 bytes −71‎ Another edit
• curprev 05:0605:06, 24 January 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ 29,028 bytes −969‎ Redefined other fields; added some references
• curprev 04:5604:56, 24 January 2007‎ imported>John Stephenson‎ m 29,921 bytes 0‎ linguistics -> Linguistics