Brett Reynolds
@brettrey.bsky.social
Co-author: A Student's Introduction to English Grammar. Working on a "Pop-linguistics" book on grammaticality (no, really) + an intro to language textbook for TESL. Prof at Humber College. My dog wants to be a pirate.
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One of the more fun projects of the past year was writing an introduction to the reissue of Otto Jespersen's classic book on negation from 1917. Hoping this gets him new generations of readers, and not just for the negation book but for his other works as well.
Negation in English and other languages
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April 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One of the more fun projects of the past year was writing an introduction to the reissue of Otto Jespersen's classic book on negation from 1917. Hoping this gets him new generations of readers, and not just for the negation book but for his other works as well.
Reposted by Brett Reynolds
Just published "Negation in English and other languages" by Otto Jespersen, edited by Brett Reynolds & Peter Evans #classics #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
April 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Just published "Negation in English and other languages" by Otto Jespersen, edited by Brett Reynolds & Peter Evans #classics #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
@ollisilv.bsky.social wrote a fantastic introduction for our new edition of Jespersen's classic book, Negation in English and other languages.
Just published "Negation in English and other languages" by Otto Jespersen, edited by Brett Reynolds & Peter Evans #classics #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
April 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@ollisilv.bsky.social wrote a fantastic introduction for our new edition of Jespersen's classic book, Negation in English and other languages.
Reposted by Brett Reynolds
Can pronouns and determinatives be statistically distinguished? @brettrey.bsky.social employs energy distance statistics to analyze English lexical categories, supporting The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language’s classification with 93% accuracy.
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#langsky #linguistics
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#langsky #linguistics
February 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Can pronouns and determinatives be statistically distinguished? @brettrey.bsky.social employs energy distance statistics to analyze English lexical categories, supporting The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language’s classification with 93% accuracy.
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#langsky #linguistics
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#langsky #linguistics