CLS in the 1930s?

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There were CLS volumes published in the 1920s? By Leonard Bloomfield?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Need <bhneed at GMAIL.COM>
Date:         Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:23:26
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: [ADS-L] "funny" language; was Re: No more "Christian name,
              sir?" in Kent, UK

Ah, but only "funny" in the context of his paper (something like
"PIFL: Principle of information-free linguistics"--he expanded it two
other ways in the paper)--not in the context of the requirement. The
paper appeared in CLS in the 30s somewhere (my copy is NOT at hand).

On 1 Apr 2010, at 6:23 AM, Judy Prince wrote:

> Jerry's marvelous assertion that English counts as a "funny
> language" relates to the equally witty language-political "poster
> poem"
> by Tom Leonard, a Glaswegian Scot, in his recent poetry book
> _Outside The
> Narrative_:
>
> AN
>
> OXFORD
>
> DICTIONARY
>
> OF
>
> AN
>
> ENGLISH
> LANGUAGE

I like!

Barbara

Barbara Need
Chicago

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