Language Log
Language Log is a collaborative language blog maintained by Mark Liberman, a phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania.
| Editor | Mark Liberman |
|---|---|
| Editor | Geoffrey Pullum |
| Format | Blog |
| First issue | July 28, 2003 |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Language | English |
| Website | languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu |
Most of the posts focus on language use in the media and in popular culture. Text available through Google Search frequently serves as a corpus to test hypotheses about language. Other popular topics include the descriptivism/prescriptivism debate, and linguistics-related news items. The site has occasionally held contests in which visitors attempt to identify an obscure language.
As of 2012, Denham and Lobeck characterized Language Log as "one of the most popular language sites on the Internet". As of June 2011 it received an average of almost 21,000 visits per day. In May 2006 Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum published a compilation of some of their blog posts in book form under the title Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log.