Geoffrey Sampson

Geoffrey Sampson: Recent Publications

My latest books are:

• God Proofs, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.


• Voices from Early China, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.


• The Linguistics Delusion, Equinox, 2017.


• and a new edition of Law for Computing Students, BookBoon, 2018.

Also, see a recent interview which a linguistics journal did with me.

Other recent academic contributions include:

• “On transliterating the Book of Odes”, Classical Literature 1.24–9, 2023.


• Chapter on “English” to be in Dimitrios Meletis et al., eds, Handbook of Germanic Writing Systems.


• “Because the stakes are so low” (a review article on the second edition of Randy Harris, The Linguistics Wars), lingbuzz/006550, 2022.


• “An unaddressed phonological contradiction”, International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 6.221–37, 2019.


• “Rigid strings and flaky snowflakes”, Language and Cognition 8.587–603, 2016.


• “How many possible trade names are there?”, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 23.342–60, 2016.


• Writing Systems, 2nd edition, Equinox, 2015.

Geoffrey Sampson

last changed 9 Nov 2023