John Cowan wrote:
And Rosta scripsit:2. Naturalist Lojban might in its own right be of some intrinsic interest to linguistics, but more as a curiosity than as anythingthat can advance the central research goals of linguistics.Well, the central research goals of Chomsky-style linguistics, anyway. Sociolinguists and functional linguists certainly might be interested.
I imagine cognitive linguists would also find it interesting from the point of metaphor. Lojban combines the explicit metaphor-making of lujvo (which are not metaphorical in the common sense of the word, but are in the cogling sense) with an attempt to suppress unmarked metaphor (which to a mainstream cognitive linguist would be quixotic but interesting).
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