Language as Property - stories about words.
Keywords Make the World Go Round
On parrots and search terms which have used by those visiting The Word Company via requests to the search engines...
Michael Bölker
Nature's Dictionary
Is there a biological grammar? Could molecular biology have solved some of its central questions much sooner by using semantic and linguistic models. Michael Bölker reports on the newest research results and on the astonishing structural similarities between DNA code squences and the words of our languages (summary of a lecture).
Vincent J. Docherty
From index-card box to corpus analysis
How does the word get in the dictionary? And when does it get booted out? Vincent Docherty takes on a lighthearted stroll through the day-to-day activites in the editorial offices of the largest bilingual dictionary publisher in Europe. He reports on the struggle with and against the word as well as the particular problems a "lexicographical workshop" has to face (summary of a lecture).