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:

• “Clause subordination and demography”, to be in Mouna Ayadi, ed., Approaches to Linguistic Complexity and Variation in Language Use.


• “The evolution of written English”, to be in Dimitrios Meletis et al., eds, Handbook of Germanic Writing Systems.


• “A grass-style dictionary”, Association for Written Language and Literacy Newsletter 16.10–11, 2025.


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


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


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

Geoffrey Sampson

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