George W. Grace
(Dave Kern, a non-linguist friend, suggested that I should put something autobiographical in my website. What occurred to me was my vita which could be made ready with little modification. So, here it is.)
BORN: Corinth, Mississippi, September 8, 1921
EDUCATION:
1948 "Licence ès sciences politiques, mention études internationales", University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
1958 Ph.D., Columbia University
POSITIONS HELD:
1951-52 Junior Research Anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley
1953-54 Research Associate, Tri-Institutional Pacific Program
1954-55 Research Assistant in Anthropology, Yale University
1956-57 Associate in Malayo-Polynesian Linguistics, Bernice P. Bishop Museum
1958-59 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1959-60 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
1960-64 Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University
1963-64 Scholar in Residence, East-West Center
1964-1991 Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawaii
1991--- Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:
1961-1991 Editor, Oceanic Linguistics
1966-1991 Editor, Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications
OTHER:
Honorary Associate, Department of Anthropology, Bishop Museum
FIELD RESEARCH:
1951 Southern California
1955-56 Southwest Pacific: New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, West New Guinea (now Irian Jaya, Indonesia)
1970 New Caledonia
1971-73 New Caledonia
1976 Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED:
1974 John Lynch, Lenakel Phonology 1974 Robert Blust, The Proto-North Sarawak Vowel Deletion Hypothesis 1975 Kay Ikranagara, Melayu Betawi Grammar 1977 Sheldon Harrison, Some Problems in the History of Mokilese Morpho-Syntax 1980 Frantisek Lichtenberk, A Grammar of Manam 1982 Joel Bradshaw, Word Order Change in Papua New Guinea Austronesian Languages 1982 Suzanne Scollon, Reality Set, Socialization, and Linguistic Convergence 1985 Amara Prasithrathsint, Change in the Passive Constructions in Written Thai during the Bangkok Period 1986 Anne Pakir, A Linguistic Investigation of Baba Malay 1987 Hiroshi Sugita, A Study of Trukese Possessive Expressions 1993 Fumiko Earns, Language Adaptation: European Language Influence on Japanese Syntax 1993 Jung-Ying Lu Chen, Bilingual Code-Switching Between Mandarin and English: A Case StudyPUBLICATIONS:
(I've listed here only those things that would generally be regarded as being "published" in the conventional sense of the term [I do include here papers in the University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics]. Following this list I've added a list of linguistics-related pages published only on this website.
1955. Subgrouping of Malayo-Polynesian: A Report of Tentative Findings. American Anthropologist 47: 337-39.
1958. Review of H. R. Klieneberger, Bibliography of Oceanic Linguistics. American Anthropologist 60: 1243.
1959. The Position of the Polynesian Languages within the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) Language Family. Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics, International Journal of American Linguistics, Memoir 16. Also Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 46.
1960. (with A. L. Kroeber) The Sparkman Grammar of Luiseño. University of California Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 16.
1961. Austronesian Linguistics and Culture History. American Anthropologist 63: 359-68.
1961. Review of K. J. Hollyman. A checklist of Oceanic languages. Journal of the Polynesian Society 70: 378-79.
1961. Abstract, Lexicostatistics and Austronesian subgrouping. pp. 96-97 in Abstracts of Symposium Papers, Tenth Pacific Science Congress. Honolulu.
1961. Lexicostatistical Comparison of Six Eastern Austronesian Languages. Anthropological Linguistics 3(9): 1-22, 1961.
1962. Problems in Oceanic Linguistic Subgrouping. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series II. 24: 684-89.
1962. Comment on Oceanic Linguistics Today, by Arthur Capell. Current Anthropology 3(4): 408-10.
1963. Review of A. Capell. A linguistic survey of the South-Western Pacific. American Anthropologist 65: 481-82.
1963. Abstracts and Translations from articles on Oceanic Linguistics, International Journal of American Linguistics 29: 153-57.
1964. Abstracts and Translations from articles on Oceanic Linguistics, International Journal of American Linguistics 30: 175-78.
1964. The Linguistic Evidence (in symposium on "Movement of the Malayo-Polynesians: 1500 B. C. to A.D. 500"). Current Anthropology 5: 361-68, 403-404.
1965. Review of H. L. Shorto (ed.). Linguistic comparison in South East Asia and the Pacific. American Anthropologist 67: 1019-20, 1965.
1965. Review of Dell Hymes (ed.), Language in culture and society: A reader in linguistics and anthropology. Social Forces 44: 289.
1965. On the scientific status of genetic classification in linguistics. Oceanic Linguistics 4: 1-14.
1966. Austronesian lexicostatistical classification: A review article, Oceanic Linguistics 5: 13-31.
1967. Effect of heterogeneity in the lexicostatistical test list: The case of Rotuman. In Genevieve A. Hightower et al (eds.). Polynesian culture history: Essays in honor of Kenneth P. Emory. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 56, pp. 289-302.
1968. Review of Jerry Allen and Conrad Hurd, Languages of the Bougainville District. Summer institute of Linguistics. Lingua 19: 437-441.
1968. Review of Milner and Henderson (eds.). Indo-Pacific linguistic studies. Language 44: 168-72.
1968. Classification of the languages of the Pacific. In Andrew P. Vayda (ed.), Peoples and cultures of the Pacific: An anthropological reader. Garden City NY: The natural history Press, pp. 63-79.
1969. Notes on the philosophical background of current linguistic controversy. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 1: 1-41, Jan. 1969.
1969. A Proto-Oceanic finder list. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 2: 39-84, Mar. 1969.
1969. Speaking of linguistic change. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 3: 101-116, Apr. 1969.
1970. Languages of Oceania. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 2(3): 1-24, 1970.
1970. Oceanic linguistics tomorrow. Pacific linguistic studies in honour of Arthur Capell, ed. by S.A. Wurm and D.C Laycock. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, C-13, pp. 31-65.
1970. Austronesian Linguistics and Culture History. In Cultures of the Pacific, ed. by Thomas G. Harding and Ben J. Wallace. New York: The free press, pp. 20-28. [Reprinted from American Anthropologist 63: 359-68, 1961].
1970. Notes on the Phonological History of the Austronesian Languages of the Sarmi Coast, University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 2(9): 55-104, Dec. 1970 [Later published in Oceanic Linguistics 10: 11-37]
1970. On canonical shapes in the language of Koumac. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 2(5): 205-222, 1970. [Later published in Thomas and Bernot (eds.) 1972]
1971. Languages of the New Hebrides and Solomon Islands. In Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 8, Linguistics in Oceania. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 341-58.
1971. Notes on the Phonological History of the Austronesian Languages of the Sarmi Coast. Oceanic Linguistics 10: 11-37.
1972. On Canonical Shapes in the Language of Koumac. In Jacqueline M. C. Thomas and Lucien Bernot (eds.). Langues et Techniques, Nature et Société, Vol. 1, Approche Linguistique. Paris: Klincksieck, pp. 135-40.
1973. Review of Earl J. Hughes, Nunggubuyu-English Dictionary. American Anthropologist 75: 502-503.
1973. Research on the position of the New Caledonian languages: A progess report. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 5(7): 49-62, Jul.- Aug. 1973.
1975. Linguistic diversity in the Pacific: On the sources of diversity. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 7(3): 1-7, 1975.
1975. Canala Dictionary (New Caledonia). Pacific Linguistics, Series C, Books, No. 2 (viii, 128).
1976. Grand Couli Dictionary (New Caledonia). Pacific Linguistics, Series C, Books, No. 12 (vii, 113).
1976. History of Research in Austronesian Languages of the New Guinea Area: General.In Stephen A. Wurm (ed.). New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study, Vol. 2, Austronesian Languages. Pacific Linguistics Series C, Books, No. 39, pp. 55-71.
1976. (Review Article) R. C. Green and M. Kelly (eds.). Studies in Oceanic Culture History, Vol. 3. Journal of the Polynesian Society 85: 103-12.
1978. Introduction [to issue made up of papers resulting from the Oceanic Comparative Linguistics Project]. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 10(1): 1-7, 1978.
1978. Frantisek Lichtenberk's sketch of Houailou grammar. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 10(2): 73, 1978.
1979. The dilemma of the disciplines. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 11(1): 1-10, 1979.
1979. On "linguistic change" and related notions. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 11(3): 27-34, 1979.
1979. On "meaning" and related notions, University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 11(3): 35-46, 1979.
1980. Comment on Robert Blust, Early Austronesian social organization: The evidence of language, Current Anthropology 21: 235.
1981. History of Research in Austronesian Languages of the New Guinea Area: General. In John Lynch (ed.), Readings in the comparative linguistics of Melanesia. Studying Pacific Language Series, no. 4. Language Department, University of Papua New Guinea, pp. 69-77. [Reprinted from Pacific Linguistics C-39, 1976].
1981. An Essay on Language. Columbia SC: Hornbeam Press.
1981. Indirect inheritance and the aberrant Melanesian languages. Studies in Pacific languages and cultures in honour of Bruce Biggs. Ed. by Jim Hollyman and Andrew Pawley, 255-68. Auckland: Linguistic Society of New Zealand.
1981 (actually published 1982). Review article: S. A. Wurm and Lois Carrington (eds.). Second International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: Proceedings. Journal of the Polynesian Society 90: 426-30.
1982. Thoughts on translation and meaning: A progress report. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 14(3): 1-23.
1985. On the explanation of sound changes: Some Polynesian cases. In Veneeta Z. Acson and Richard L. Leed (eds.). For Gordon Fairbanks. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications, no. 20, pp. 56-63.
1985. Review of Eric de Grolier (ed.). Glossogenetics: The origin and evolution of language. Anthropological Linguistics 27: 112-17.
1985. Necrology. Gordon H. Fairbanks. LSA Bulletin 109: 16-17 (October 1985).
1985. Gordon Hubert Fairbanks: An Obituary. University of Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 17 (1): 1-3. (January-June 1985).
1985. Oceanic Subgrouping: Retrospect and Prospect. In Andrew Pawley and Lois Carrington (eds.). Austronesian Linguistics at the 15th Pacific Science Congress. Pacific Linguistics, C-88, pp. 1-18.
1986. Further thoughts on Oceanic Subgrouping. In Paul Geraghty, Lois Carringtion, and S. A. Wurm (eds.). FOCAL II: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Pacific Linguistics, C-94, pp. 1-12.
1986. Hypotheses about the phonological history of the language of Canala, New Caledonia. In Chris Corne and Andrew Pawley (eds.). Le coq et le cagou: Essays on French and Pacific languages in honour of Jim Hollyman. Te Reo, Vol. 29, pp. 55-76.
1987. Genetic classification revisited. In Donald C. Laycock and Werner Winter (eds.). A world of language: Papers presented to Professor S. A. Wurm on his 65th birthday. Pacific Linguistics C-100, pp. 221-26.
1987. The linguistic construction of reality. London: Croom Helm.
1982-83 (actually published 1988). Review of Stephen A. Wurm and Shiro Hattori (eds.). Language atlas of the Pacific area. Asian Perspectives 25 (2): 139-41.
1988. Do languages change at a constant rate: An alternative view of basic vocabulary replacement. In Roger L. Hadlich and J. D. Ellsworth (eds.). East meets West: Homage to Edgar C. Knowlton, Jr. Honolulu: Department of European Languages and Literature, College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawaii, pp. 72-79.
1989. The meaning of meaning (Review article of Mark Johnson, The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason). Semiotica 73: 351-62.
1990. The "aberrant" (vs. "exemplary") Melanesian languages. In Philip Baldi (ed.). Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 45. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 155-73.
1990. 'Consonant grade' in Oceanic languages. In J.H.C.S. Davidson (ed.). Pacific Island Languages: Essays in honour of G.B. Milner. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and University of Hawaii Press, pp. 41-49.
1990. The "aberrant" (vs. "exemplary") Melanesian languages. In Philip Baldi (ed.). Patterns of change change of patterns: Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 109-27. [Reprinted from Philip Baldi (ed.). Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 45. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990, pp. 155-73.]
1988 (actually published 1991). Syntactic change in progress? The Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Vol LIX, Part II, pp. 329-37.
1992. How do languages change? (More on "aberrant" languages). Oceanic Linguistics 31: 115-30.
1996. Regularity of change in what? In Mark Durie and Malcolm Ross (eds.). The comparative method reviewed: Regularity and irregularity in language change. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 157-79.
1997. Comment on John Edward Terrell, Terry L. Hunt, and Chris Gosden. The dimensions of social life in the Pacific: Human diversity and the myth of the primitive isolate. Current Anthropology 38:178-79.
1997. On the changing context of Austronesian historical linguistics. In: Cecilia Odé and Wim Stokhof (eds.). Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B.V, pp. 15-32.
1998. Some puzzles that arise from the assumption that to learn a language is to construct a grammar. In Mark Janse (ed.)(with the assistance of An Verlinden). Productivity and creativity: Studies in general and descriptive linguistics in honor of E. M. Uhlenbeck. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 69-81.
2000. Review of Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley, and Meredith Osmond (eds.) The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, 1. Material culture (Pacific Linguistics Series C-152, 1998). Oceanic Linguistics 39: 204-211.
2001. Byron. In Joel Bradshaw and Kenneth L. Rehg (eds.) Issues in Austronesian morphology: A focusshrift for Byron W. Bender. Pacific Linguistics 519, 2001, pp. 3-10.
2007. (With Alison Wray). The consequences of talking to strangers: Evolutionary corollaries of socio-cultural influences on linguistic form. Lingua 117: 543-578, 2007.
2009. Thoughts on learning that Bob Blust has reached festschrift age. In Alexander Adelaar and Andrew Pawley (eds.) Austronesian linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust. Pacific Linguistics 601, 2009, pp. 19-22.
2010. Establishing the Linguistics Department at the University of Hawaii. In Loren Billings and Nelleke Goudswaard (eds.) Piakandatu ami Dr. Howard P. McKaughan. Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines, (2007) 2010, pp. 135-38.
2010. Recollections of Andy Pawley. In John Bowden, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Malcolm Ross (eds.) A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space: papers in honour of Andrew K. Pawley. Pacific Linguistics, 2010, pp. 5-8.
2011. (With Byron Bender and John Lynch). The first fifty years of Oceanic Linguistics. Oceanic Linguistics 50: 285-311, 2011.
LINGUISTICS-RELATED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
1976. Began writing the Ethnolinguistic Notes. The first series (ELN1) were dittoed and distributed to colleagues. The next series was mimeographed, the third consisted of computer printouts (many were subsequently put online), and the fourth was published online only. A general overview of the Ethnolinguistic Notes has been posted online (Click here). A description of the first and second series is also available (Click here). 1976. (ELN1)1. The dotted line. (Jan. 8, l976--4[6]pp) 1976. (ELN1)2. That a language and its description are different objects (Jan. 10, 1976--3[6]pp (1976. ELN1)3. How things are said (Jan. 11, 1976--3[5]pp) 1976. (ELN1)4. The scandal of translation (Jan. 15, 1976--2[4]4pp) 1976. (ELN1)5. What is there to be calqued? (Jan. 16, 1976--5[9]pp) 1976. (ELN1) ETHNOLINGUISTIC NOTES: Addenda, corrigenda, etc. 1 (Jan. 21, 1976--2[4]4pp) 1976. (ELN1)6. Meaning: the word and the sentence (Jan. 28, 1976--3[6]pp) 1976. (ELN1)7. Word meaning (Feb. 6, 1976--7[11]pp) 1976. (ELN1)8. A perspective on change (Aug. 23, 1976--4pp) 1976. (ELN1)9. Introduction (Aug. 30, 1976--3pp) 1976. (ELN1)10. Introduction (cont.): A possible science of language (Sept. 5, 1976--2pp) 1976. (ELN1)11. Fluency, or Zen and the art of speaking a language (Sept. 17, 1976--4pp) 1976. (ELN1)12. Function and selection (Dec. 23, 1976--7pp) 1977. (ELN1)13. More on the ostensible primary function of language (Jan. 9, 1977--4pp) 1977. (ELN1)14. More on the idiolect (Jan. 15, 1977--4pp) 1977. (ELN1)15. Le langage and la langue (Jan. 24, 1977--4pp) 1977. (ELN1)16. More on triteness (Mar. 8, 1977--5pp) 1977. (ELN1)17. Some background considerations on the question of the relation between language (langue) and (partitive) culture (Mar. 14, 1977--5pp) 1977. (ELN1)18. Thought and language (Apr. 22, 1977--4pp) 1978. Began the “new series” of Ethnolinguistic Notes (I wrote a few things under different headings that I’m treating here as belonging to this series). 1978. (ELNns)1. Is exoticism a phenomenon? (May 30, 1978--4pp.) 1978. (ELNns)2. The langue (June 9, 1978--4pp) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1978. (ELNns)3. On the foundations of diachronic linguistics: What can go right? (June 21, 1978--5pp) 1978. (ELNns)4. Linguistic relativity (Aug. 4, 1978--3pp) 1978. On the role of language (natural or artificial) in epistemology (no date, apparently August or September 1978--3pp) 1978. (NOTES ON CONTENT FORM)1. The functions of syntactic structures (Fall 1978--1p) 1978. (NOTES ON CONTENT FORM)2. On meaning in lexical items (Fall 1978--2pp) 1978. (ELNns)5. Intellectualized language (Oct. 15, 1978--3pp) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1978. (ELNns)6. Intellectualized language2: Writing (Oct. 21, 1978--4pp) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1978. (ELNns)7. Where does "the economy of linguistic description" come from? (Oct. 26, 1978--4pp) 1978. (NOTES ON CONTENT FORM)3. On the representation of reality by languages, or, What I meant by saying language "constructs realities" (Oct. 29, 1978--4pp) 1979. (ELNns)8. The speaker (May 18, 1979--4pp) 1979. (ELNns)9. Speaking roughly (June 15, 1979--4pp) 1979. (ELNns)10. Meaning and reference in natural language (Aug. 5, 1979--5pp) 1979. (ELNns)11. Toward the study of ordinary language (Dec. 13, 1979--7pp(ds) 1979. (NOTES ON CONTENT FORM)4. The etics and emics of reality: More on how languages "construct realities" (Mar. 29, 1979--2pp) 1979. (NOTES ON CONTENT FORM)5. The linguistic sign (Apr. 3, 1979--5pp) 1979. A note on language and perception (June 27, 1979--3pp) 1981. Began the third series of Ethnolinguistic Notes--produced as computer printout. An introduction to this series is available online (Click here) 1981. (ELN3)1. On what it is like to have language. (July 22, 1981--21 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1981.(ELN3)2. Defining what linguistics is about (and why). (September 28, 1981--22 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1981.(ELN3)3. The role of language in the acquisition of knowledge. (October 14, 1981--12 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1982. (ELN3)4. The question of the nature of language. (January 4, 1982--21 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1982. (ELN3)5. Ways of talking about things. (April 14, 1982--25 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1982. (ELN3)6. Thoughts on translation and meaning: A progress report. (July 30, 1982--41 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1982. (ELN3)7. More on ways of talking about things: Contexts. (August 11, 1982--18 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1982. (ELN3)8. The evolution of language. (December 17, 1982--15 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1983. (ELN3)9. More on the nature of language: The intertranslatability postulate and its consequences. (March 28, 1983--11 pp.) 1983. (ELN3)10. Reality and its representation by language. (March 28, 1983--14 pp.) 1983. (ELN3)11. The linguistic construction of reality. (May 27, 1983--16 pp.) 1983. (ELN3)12. Translation: Isomorphism versus paraphrase. (June 11, 1983--10 pp.) 1983. (ELN3)13. The relation between language and thought. (June 22, 1983--11 pp.) 1983. (ELN3)14. More on the nature of language: The place of sociolinguistics. (June 28, 1983--12 pp.) 1983. (ELN3)15. More on reality and its representation by language: Conceptual worlds. (July 11, 1983--10 pp.) 1983. (ELN3)16. A second progress report: On the nature of language. (July 15, 1983--17 pp.) 1983. (ELN3)17. Why I do not believe in phonemes: On the cognitive validity of linguistic theories of phonology. (November 23, 1983--28 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1984. (ELN3)18. Basic vocabulary. (February 23, 1984--11 pp.) 1984. (ELN3)19. More on the reality of phonemes (March 5, 1984--13 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1984. (ELN3)20. More on "Language 2" (March 24, 1984--16 pp.) 1984. (ELN3)21. More on autonomous text. (May 7, 1984--9 pp.) 1984. (ELN3)22. Some observations about boundaries and about open systems. (December 14, 1984--10 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1985. (ELN3)23. Ongoing discourses. (January 7, 1985--13 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1985. (ELN3)24. On the notion "linguistic description" (May 20, 1985--13 pp.) 1986. (ELN3)25. The intertranslatability postulate and its consequences.(January 20, 1986--13 pp.) 1986. (ELN3)26. Perlocutionary translation. (May 28/August 20, 1986--13 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1987. (ELN3)27. Idealization in historical linguistics. (April 30, 1987--18 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1987. (ELN3)28. The translation of casual speech. (June 8, 1987--11 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1987. (ELN3)29. The post-Linnean world-view and languages of universal translation. (August 26, 1987--3 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1987. (ELN3)30. Why translation works (to the extent that it does). (August 27, 1987--7 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1987. (ELN3)31. “What they would say in the same situation”. (December 21, 1987--19 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1988. (ELN3)32. The idea of a theory of translation: Some general observations. (September 13, 1988--10 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1988. (ELN3)33. The idea of a theory of translation: On shared and unshared cultural backgrounds. (October 5, 1988--10 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1988. (ELN3)34. The idea of a theory of translation: The object of the verb “to translate”. (October 27, 1988--18 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1989. (ELN3)35. The association of situations with linguistic expressions. (March 10, 1989--27 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1989. (ELN3)36. A linguistics without the langue? (April 17, 1989 --15 pp.) 1989. (ELN3)37. Recognition strategy and analysis strategy in language use. (4 October 1989--10 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1989. (ELN3)38. The notion of "natural language" (24 October/28 November 1989--15 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1989. (ELN3)39. On minimal native-speaker competence (28 November 1989--9 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1990. (ELN3)40. Culture in language: What part of linguistic competence is natural? (26 February 1990--25 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1990. (ELN3)41. Is contemporary linguistic theory an instrument of cultural imperialism? (14 December 1990--23 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1991. (ELN3)42. Further remarks on monoculture imperialism (11 January 1991--10pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1991. Culture in language and linguistics: Linguistics's role in Monoculture imperialism. (1991 or 1992--v + 250pp. An unpublished book manuscript based on the some Ethnolinguistic Notes of series 3) 1992. (ELN3)43. Another attempt to explain why I have misgivings about what we tell people about language (30 November 1992--21 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1993. (ELN3)44. What is the language faculty? (21 May 1993--8 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1993. (ELN3)45. What are languages? (1 June 1993--17 pp.) This has subsequently been posted online (Click here) 1995. Began Series 4 of the Ethnolinguistic Notes. These were published online only. There's an introduction to this series online Click here 1995. (ELN4) 1. Why I don't believe that language acquisition involves the construction of a grammar. Internet WWW page at Click here 1996. (ELN4) 2. Linguistic Change: 1. The "état de langue”. Internet WWW page at Click here. 1996. (ELN4): 3. Linguistic Change: 2. The état de langue of Abstand languages. Internet WWW page at Click here. 1996. (ELN4): 4. Linguistic Change: 3. Are "varieties" the locus of the "état de langue"? Internet WWW page at Click here. 1997. (ELN4): 5: Linguistic Change: 4. More on the locus of linguistic change Internet WWW page at Click here. 1997. (ELN4): 6: Linguistic Change: 5. The individual's knowledge of language Internet WWW page at Click here. 1997. (ELN4): 7: Linguistic Change: 6. The individual's knowledge and the traditional notion of languages Internet WWW page at Click here. 1997. (ELN4): 8: Linguistic Change: 7. How does "the language" change? Internet WWW page at Click here. 1997. (ELN4): 9: Linguistic Change: 8. Why should sound change be regular? Internet WWW page at Click here. 1998. (ELN4): 10: The Genetic Hypothesis: 1. The notion of continuity of a language over time Internet WWW page at Click here. 1998. (ELN4): 11: The Genetic Hypothesis: 2. The concept of language "mixing" Internet WWW page at Click here. 1998. (ELN4): 12: The Genetic Hypothesis: 3. More "language contact" scenarios. Internet WWW page at Click here. 1998. (ELN4): 13: The Genetic Hypothesis: 4. "Contact" without inequality. Internet WWW page at Click here. 1998. (ELN4): 14: The Genetic Hypothesis: 5. Lexical borrowing. Internet WWW page at Click here. 1999. (ELN4): 15. The Genetic Hypothesis: 6. More about continuity. Internet WWW page at Click here. 1999. (ELN4): 16. The Genetic Hypothesis: 7. Continuity of what? Internet WWW page at Click here. 1999. (ELN4): 17. Voice Quality. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2000. (ELN4): 18. The Genetic Hypothesis: 8. Discovering genetic relationships: The evidence. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2001. (ELN4): 19. The Genetic Hypothesis: 9. Discovering genetic relationships: More about the evidence. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2001. (ELN4): 20. The Genetic Hypothesis: 10. Discovering genetic relationships: Some questions of strategy and objectives. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2002. (ELN4): 21. Collateral Damage from Linguistics? 1. The Post-Chomskyan paradigm and its underlying assumptions. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2002. (ELN4): 22. Collateral Damage from Linguistics? 2. The cultural evolution of language. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2002. (ELN4): 23. Collateral Damage from Linguistics? 3. The role of culture-centrism. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2003. I started another series of online pieces that I labeled “Reflections”. There are actually several series; the first was “Reflections on the evolution of human language”. Click here 2003. Robin Dunbar’s Social Bonding Hypothesis. Reflections on the evolution of human language, number 1. Internet WWW page at Click here 2003. (ELN4): 24. Collateral Damage from Linguistics? 4. What kind of language does the “language acquisition device” really prepare us to acquire? Internet WWW page at Click here. 2004. A Role for Phonaesthesia in the Emergence of Analytic Processing? Reflections on the evolution of human language, number 2. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2004. A Role for Blends in the Emergence of Analytic Processing? Reflections on the evolution of human language, number 3. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2005. A Role for “Meaningless Morphemes” in the Emergence of Analytic Processing? Reflections on the evolution of human language, number 4. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2005. A “Swiss-Army-Knife” Conception of Early Language Evolution. Reflections on the evolution of human language, number 5. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2005. The emergence of analytic processing: summary of suggestions toward a hypothesis. Reflections on the evolution of human language, number 6. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2006. Began a “Reflections” series entitled “Reflections on knowledge of language”. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2006. And under it, a sequence entitled “The role of the holistic mode”. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2006. (ELN4): 25. Language Adaptation. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2006. Added a page briefly describing the first two series of Ethnolinguistic Notes. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2007. Added a sequence entitled “Where does knowledge of the world fit in?” to “Reflections on knowledge of language”. Internet WWW page at Click here. 2007. A history of the University of Hawai'i linguistics department Internet WWW page at Click here. 2007. A sequence entitled "Thoughts on reading Heryanto". 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