The silver lining is that Microsoft under the helm of Nadella genuinely seems to believe in open source

Sorry to say, but currently it seems like the momentum is with VSCode…

Can you disclose the source 😳?

Ah, thx! My Czech Language skills are basically non-existing and I am learning more as I proceed. I’m mostly just quoting from the sources up to now, but you are right that is too simplistic 🫣.

Thanks! 🙏

Implicit ideology? Maybe Atkinson (2011), arguing that southern Africa "could represent ... a single origin for modern languages" doi.org/10.1126/scie...

This paper raised many linguistic eyebrows:
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BTW: the sentence that is analysed with "Schema Б" in the quoted image is the sentence "With a blunt pencil I quickly write a demand to immediately send an armed police squad." Also quite telling for an example from post-revolution Russia in 1928...

I would love to read a book about the socio-political influences on examples given in grammar textbooks 🤔. You know: what does it say about a society that uses sentences like "John hit Mary" to teach their grammar to their children 😫

what about "The chairman gives Mukhin the floor to report on Terentyev’s political offense" in Zeltser & Vvedensky (1925).

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talking about optimality theory: the history of the manicule (U+261E) is also interesting. It even occurs sometimes in 19thC grammars. However, it probably just ended up in optimality theory through the Dingbats Font

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicule

Exactly, my formulations are still very preliminary. In this case it is technology in the context of education that seems to have given rise to graphical displays of sentence structure.

can you explain what is shown in the figure (below the VOID...)? I gather that it has something to do with the Japanese "particles", but the intended meaning of this graphical display eludes me (I don't read Japanese unfortunately...)

There is no direct link from the USA to russia here: but the Developments in the USA are a whole separate story. There is clean influence from german into Russia, and it might be the Neuhochdeutsche Grammatik of Hoffmann that inspired him. However, I could not find direct evidence.