Linguistics

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Textbook Grammars

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  • linguistically-oriented grammars (stripped-down to beginner level)
  • Linguistic Typology and Formal Grammar (2010)
  • Advanced English Grammar - A Linguistic Approach (2012)
  • Linguistic Perspectives on English Grammar - A Guide for EFL Teachers (2010)
  • Linguistic Accuracy of Textbook Grammar (1988) [1]

Structuralism, Functionalism, Linguistics, Psychology

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Structuralism, Functionalism, Linguistics, Psychology
Psychology Linguistic formalism Linguistic typological-functionalism Other
(4th c. BCE) Pāṇini rule-based grammar of Sanskrit.
(1850s) Wilhelm von Humboldt's "pre-generativism"
(1879) Wundt's Elementalism or structuralist psychology
(1912) Gestalt psychology
(1916) de_Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale
(1921) Linguistic turn, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
(1890s) Freud's dynamic psychology
(1924) Watson's Behaviorism
(1949) French structuralism, Lévi-Strauss's The Elementary Structures of Kinship
(1950s) Cognitivism (psychology), Cognitive psychology (1956) Chomsky's Generative bullshit (1956) Cognitive revolution
(1963) Joseph Greenberg's Linguistic typology
(1967) Linguistics wars, Generative semantics
(1960s) Althusser's Structural Marxism
(1980s) Cognitive and behavioral approaches merge into CBT (1980s) Lakoff and Langacker's Cognitive linguistics
(1990s) Usage-based linguistics

Paradigms and ..

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Narcissists, psychopaths, sociopaths, antisocial PD

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VR headsets

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  • Valve Index, high-end consumer VR, released in June 2019, $999 with accessories, 120 (144) Hz refresh rate, 115 fov, [2], [3]
  • HP Reverb G2 Omnicept, enterprise headset, released May 2021, $1249 (with 2 motion controllers), Foveated rendering
  • Pimax
    • 8K x
    • 8K plus
    • 5K Plus, refresh Rate 90Hz, fov 170° (200° diagonal)[5]
    • 5K Super, same display as 5k+, same as 8K x, but with 180 refresh rate; 180hz (small fov), 160-120hz (normal fov) 90hz (large fov), $699 (without controllers or base stations), $ 1200 (with 2 base stations and 2 controllers)
  • Varjo XR-3, mixed reality, $5000+, eye tracking for Foveated rendering

Cannabis legalization predictions

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April 2023: 22 States have legalized recreational use [6] In order: Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, DC, California, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Montana, Vermont, Arizona, New Jersey, New Mexico, Connecticut, New York, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland, Missouri, Delaware.

Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington

As of April 2023, recreational cannabis is legal in 22 states. The ballot initiative process exists in 24 states.

There are 10 states with ballot initiatives that haven't legalized adult use yet: Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah [7], Wyoming (Mississippi's ballot initiative process has been controversally been struck down by the supreme court).

July 5th, 2022 update: [8]

Legalizations predictions

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2023:

  • Minnesota, by Legislative action [9]
  • Ohio, by Nov 2023 ballot measure [10] [11], "Ohio Activists Submit Revised Marijuana Legalization Petition For 2022 Ballot" [12], [13]

2024:

  • Hawaii, by 2024 legislative measure [14]
  • Florida, by Nov 2024 ballot measure [15], [16], [17] (two recent initiatives blocked by Supreme Court [18])
  • Nebraska, by Nov 2024 ballot measure [19] (possibly recreational in nov 2022 ballot: [20], [21])
  • Pennsylvania, by 2023/2024 legislative measures [22]
  • Iowa, by Nov 2024 constitutional amendement ballot measure [23] [24]
  • North Dakota, by 2024 ballot [25]
  • Oklahoma, Nov 2024 ballot measure [26]
  • South Dakota, Nov 2024 ballot [27]

2025:

  • New Hampshire: legislatively, after governor change, or veto overridden. [28]

Medical already legal: Mississippi [29], Utah, West Virginia.

Legalizing medical next: North Carolina (by legislative measure, or 2023 legislative action), South Carolina [30], Idaho (by 2024 ballot [31], [32], [33])

Other states: Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas.

2026:

World-wide

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Legality of cannabis#By country: recreational use is legal in Canada, Georgia (possession), Mexico, South Africa (possession and cultivation), Uruguay. Decriminalized and legal medical use in several countries.

  • Luxembourg (parliament vote expected early 2022)
  • Germany (expected during 2022) [36]
  • Italy (referendum vote expected for Spring 2022) [37]
  • Switzerland, Nederlands [38]

Have already legalized:

  • Uruguay
  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • Malta (Dec 2021) [39] [40]

Linguistics articles to create

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Encyclopedias, handbooks, and other tertiary sources

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Encyclopedias and handbooks in linguistics, semantics (distributional, lexical, phrasal, compositional, formal, ..), natural language processing, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, applied linguistics, neurolinguistics, .., cognitive sciences, cognitive linguistics, ..