WSJ.com - All Talk, No Action: A Funeral for Verbs, With Few Pallbearers

[Grant Barrett]

LanguageLog, a group blog operated by linguists, some who are on this
list, had several posts about the book and related topics, including
writing without other parts of speech.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000884.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000885.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000886.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000887.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000889.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000890.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000891.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000892.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000900.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000902.html

(Sorry for all the links. The LanguageLog folks tend to post new
entries instead of just having a discussion attached to a single entry,
which makes this kind of ridiculousness necessary.)

Grant

On Jul 16, 2004, at 09:38, Baker, John wrote:

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> A French novel sans verbs (though not sans verbals).  A
> correspondingly verbless article from page 1 of today's Wall Street
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