Dear All,
This is to announce the opening of my new website at:
Check it out. Guarantee there's stuff there you wouldn't expect. Any resemblance to your average prof's website is accidental, unintentional and quite possibly non-existent. If you like it, tell your friends about it.
Best wishes,
Derek
Derek Bickerton is a really interesting and influential linguist. Probably his most famous areas of work have been on pidgins and creoles and on the evolution of language. He came up with the notion of 'protolanguage'. Roughly, protolanguage is an envisaged human communication system which was a first step away from ape communication towards human language. It meant that we could make more sense of the evolution of language as something that evolved without having to make a gigantic leap from nothing-like-human-language to something as complicated as what I'm using as I type and you're using as you read.
Anyway, he's now a blogger.
B-)
