Welcome to my page on language and history!

Lee Hartman, <lhartman [at] siu [dot] edu>

Anthroponomy (names of people) John Smith et al.:  Anomalies in the distribution of the most frequent given names and surnames in the U.S. Truly Wisconsin Surnames:  Some 200 family names that are more numerous in Wisconsin than in any other state Corpus studies Summer Pulls Ahead of Winter in Eight Languages! Esperanto Kiel Esperanto povas komprenebligi rubgoldbergilojn (How Esperanto Can Elucidate Rube Goldberg Contraptions)

History History of A Sealing Voyage (1830, Falkland Islands, Daniel W. Lamb) Why x?  (Origins of the use of x in algebra) Phono:  Computer program for testing models of regular historical sound change in natural languages— • Version 2016 (to download): Download Phono, bundled with a model for Spanish, for beta-testing.   Preface to source code Phono source code Articles on Phono: "Modeling Phonological Change" (2003) "Phono (Version 4.0):  Software for Modeling Regular Historical Sound Change" (2003)   • Phono2017 online Spanish Que Sera Sera:  The English Roots of a Pseudo-Spanish Proverb