Sank’s Glossary of Linguistics
Sank’s Glossary of Linguistics now announces its new, convenient domain name, purchased on March 28.
Hitherto, we have all been typing the longer and clunkier:
studylove.org/ling/jpsgloss.html
Effective immediately, we now merely type or tap exactly nine (9) keystrokes including Enter:
The new name is just a quick redirect to the same old location. The longer address will keep functioning.
Other SGOL news items:
* SGOL will soon reach the milestone of expansion to one hundred (100) long pages. (Each long page is about as long as a shorter book chapter.) Should SGOL now be called a dictionary or encyclopedia? Reasoning: (1) A glossary is a partial dictionary. (2) No dictionary or encyclopedia will ever cover linguistics completely without a rapid accumulation of gaps. (3) Ergo, the name “Glossary” will remain.
* Sank has been adding many, many reference links. Visitors to the site now have the opportunity to read the works of a large multitude of scholars. Some Glossary entries are bristling with links to hours of available further reading. The links are kept small and compact in order to minimize visual disruption.
* Given all of the links being added, a strong effort has been made, since early 2024, to comply with copyrights. Hence, some links go to publishers, while other links, happily, go to open-access resources.
* SGOL now has 24 rotating items that show up its “Tips” box. Some Tips are instructions; others, suggestions; others, notices; others, general SGOL background information. Each time the site is modified, the next Tip appears.
* A small but growing number of entries each have a situation where Sank sought but failed to find any definitions of a term. So the entry was made by collecting examples of the term’s use and presenting them in a reverse chronological order, perhaps revealing something about the term’s evolution.
* Sank has been adding subtle bits of color, mostly to examples, in order to boost rapid comprehension.
DISCLOSURE: SGOL is not affiliated with any institution or company. Sank disavows any allegiance to a particular theory, saying, “All theories are fun to get acquainted with.” SGOL does not receive funding or donations. It sells nothing and advertises nothing. Labor is all volunteer.