Talk:Language (general)

Article Checklist for "Language (general)"

Workgroup category or categories	Linguistics Workgroup [Editors asked to check categories]
Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article?	No
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	Pat Palmer 14:48, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

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preserving commented-out link to an image, removed from main page

This link: [ [Image:Caslonsample.jpg|thumb|A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 [ [Cyclopaedia]].] ] has been removed from the main page, where it was commented out. It was causing an extra skipped line. I'll leave it here awhile in case someone wants to do something about it.Pat Palmer 11:25, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

And, here's another one for preservation: [ [Image:Surfacegyri.jpg|thumb|Some of the areas of the brain involved in language processing: [ [Broca's area]], [ [Wernicke's area]], [ [Supramarginal gyrus]], [ [Angular gyrus]], [ [Primary Auditory Cortex]]] ]Pat Palmer 14:01, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

I've begin editing this page, and so I've revised its status up to 3.Pat Palmer 11:49, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

note to myself: move some of the language vs dialect stuff to dialect continuum

Making a note to myself; I have to quit now but hope to return shortly and finish cleanup of this page.Pat Palmer 14:15, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

saving reference here temporarily

• Crystal, David (1997). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
• Crystal, David (2001). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
• Katzner, K. (1999). The Languages of the World. New York, Routledge.
• McArthur, T. (1996). The Concise Companion to the English Language. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Kandel ER, Schwartz JH, Jessell TM. Principles of Neural Science, fourth edition, 1173 pages. McGraw-Hill, New York (2000). ISBN 0-8385-7701-6

The above are not correctly linked to anything on the article but were explicitly typed in to the References area.Pat Palmer 14:37, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

would like a complete rewrite

After playing with this article for a bit, I think it deserves a complete overhaul. The original material coming from Wikipedia made, in my opinion, very simplistic assumptions about the basic definition of language that I would like to handle differently. Also, most sections are worth keeping but need, I think, a quite different structure. Sections about natural language versus animal language versus constructed language versus mathematical and programming language need to be more clearly separated, I think. It's going to be a big job (sigh).Pat Palmer 15:04, 13 April 2007 (CDT)