1,721,104 research outputs found
Noun, verb, adjective - or all three? (Inside Story)
No full textKate Burridge and Peter Clarke discuss how and why we turn nouns into verbs into adjectives. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 28 September 2016
On the slippery slope with rorters and fraudsters (Inside Story)
No full textOnce a word attracts negative connotations there seems to be no going back, linguist Kate Burridge tells Peter Clarke in the second of a series of Inside Language podcasts. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 8 January 2016
Me, myself and I (Inside Story)
No full textSmall words can create big problems. In the latest Inside Langage podcast, Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge about misplaced pronouns. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 24 June 2016
No need to be possessive about apostrophes (Inside Story)
No full textKate Burridge and Peter Clarke explore the erratic history, contentious present and far-from-certain future of this tricky piece of punctuation. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 14 September 2016
Popular pick (Inside Story)
No full textFor the first time, the people and the Macquarie Dictionary committee have agreed on the same Word of the Year: 'captain's call'. Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke look at that newly iconic phrase, and some runners-up among the annual crop. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 5 February 2016
Untangling nots (Inside Story)
No full textNouns and verbs aren't the only parts of the language on the move, says Kate Burridge. She talks to Peter Clarke about the evolution of that short but unequivocal word, "not". Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 8 April 2016
The contronym conundrum (Inside Story)
No full textEnglish is peppered with contronyms - those words that mean one thing in one context, and the opposite in another. Where do they come from and what do they signify, asks linguist Kate Burridge in this conversation with Peter Clarke. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 28 March 2016
Pardon our French (Inside Story)
No full textDutch courage, French letters, it's all Greek to me... In the latest Inside Language podcast, Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge about how outmoded attitudes have hung around in English. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 25 July 2016
Bad language (Inside Story)
No full textContent contains strong language. Once a word attracts negative connotations there seems to be no going back, linguist Kate Burridge tells Peter Clarke in the second of a series of Inside Language podcasts. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 17 January 2016
Living the language (Inside Story)
No full textAfter nearly a quarter of a century collecting data among the Mennonites of southern Ontario, Kate Burridge is identifying the broader linguistic implications of her research. She talks to Peter Clarke. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story web site, 1 October 2009
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