Re: 11.2379, Calls: Corpus Linguistics, Languages of the World

[Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@MATH.BAS.BG>]

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
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> Date:  Fri, 03 Nov 2000 13:32:11 +0100
> From:  LINCOM.EUROPA@t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
> Subject:  Languages of the World
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>  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).
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>  The following issues are available now:
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>  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
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> little attention, even from scholars studying artificial languages.
> 
>  ISBN 3 89586 667 9.
>  Languages of the World 24.
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