From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Sat Nov 04 05:36:43 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: iad@math.bas.bg X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 4 Nov 2000 13:36:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 64287 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2000 13:36:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 4 Nov 2000 13:36:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO banmatpc.math.bas.bg) (195.96.243.2) by mta1 with SMTP; 4 Nov 2000 13:36:39 -0000 Received: from iad.math.bas.bg (iad.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.88]) by banmatpc.math.bas.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA09218 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 15:36:34 +0200 Message-ID: <3A0410F4.60F@math.bas.bg> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 15:36:52 +0200 Reply-To: iad@math.bas.bg Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Lojban List Subject: Re: 11.2379, Calls: Corpus Linguistics, Languages of the World References: <20001103190621.6577.qmail@linguistlist.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4800 Thought people here would want to know. --Ivan The LINGUIST Network wrote: > LINGUIST List: Vol-11-2379. Fri Nov 3 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. > Subject: 11.2379, Calls: Corpus Linguistics, Languages of the World [...] > Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 13:32:11 +0100 > From: LINCOM.EUROPA@t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) > Subject: Languages of the World [...] > Languages of the World is a booklet series for STUDIES > ON GRAMMATICAL ISSUES; LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY; > and the results of LINGUISTIC FIELD RESEARCH. > > The first ten issues have been published in journal form. > From October 2000 on each issue focuses on a single > topic (32 - 150pp), and is available as a separate > booklet. > > Proposals should be sent to: Ulrich Lueders (ed.), LINCOM EUROPA, > Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen (FAX +49 89 62269404). > > The following issues are available now: [...] > LW24: A Priori Artificial Languages > Alan Libert > University of Newcastle > > The best known artificial language is Esperanto. However, hundreds of > other artificial languages have been proposed, although some have not > progressed beyond the stage of sketches and few have seen much actual > use. Those which are not consciously based on natural languages are > called a priori languages. Such languages have been less successful > than artificial languages built with elements of natural languages, > such as Esperanto and Interlingua. > > However, a priori languages are of considerable theoretical interest, > in particular from the point of view of language universals: if a > universal property holds even of languages created "from scratch", > then it can indeed be seen as a property of any (usable) human > language. Therefore, in the description of the grammars of several a > priori languages, particular attention will be given to whether their > features are in accord with proposed universals, of both the > Greenbergian and Chomskyan types. > > After an introduction one chapter each will be devoted to > phonetics/phonology, writing systems, lexicon, morphology, syntax, and > semantics. The languages described include aUI, Babm, Fitusa, > Loglan/Lojban, and Suma. Most of these languages have received very ************* > little attention, even from scholars studying artificial languages. > > ISBN 3 89586 667 9. > Languages of the World 24. > DM 68 / USD 44 / £ 25. 2001/I.