Geoffrey Sampson

Geoffrey Sampson: Recent Publications

My latest books are:

• Structural Linguistics in the 21st Century, 2024.


• God Proofs, 2022.


• Voices from Early China, 2020.


• The Linguistics Delusion, 2017.


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


• “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

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