Abstraction Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction In my last post, I wrote about abstraction in computer engineering. In today’s post, I want to start laying the foundation for looking at abstraction in two other fields, in visual arts and in linguistics. To do that, we’ll start in a place where the two fields overlap:
Undergrad Development of the Catalan periphrastic past tense construction This essay was written in the Fall 2012 semester as part of the Spanish Indo-European Syntax course at New York University, which was then numbered LING-UA 36. In the Catalan language, there are three important periphrastic constructions that can be formed with the auxiliary verb anar (“to go”). One is
