Stealthily, a new linguistics weblog has appeared. “Language Log”:http://www.languagelog.org/ is a group effort involving Steven Bird, Mark Liberman, Chris Potts, and Geoff Pullum. Among the offerings, an analysis by Pullum of Bush’s infamous statement “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa”, and Potts’ discovery that the New Yorker magazine appears to have outlawed quotative inversion, which results in some truly awkward syntax.
Can’t wait for more.