Re: Book on constructive linguistics
| From: | Sai Emrys <sai@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 7:24 |
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I have set up a webpage for this project:
http://saizai.backpackit.com/page/777717 (you'll need an invite to see
or edit the books).
As currently conceived, this will be two separate books (though they
may be published between one pair of covers).
The first is an introductory textbook on constructive linguistics (as
opposed to the traditional descriptive or presecriptive approaches).
The second is a compilation of essays on the art and philosophy of
advanced language creation.
See the website for details on each.
What I'd like are:
* a couple co leads, to guide and organize the project as a whole,
provide a clear purpose, etc
* essay contributors
* conlinguistics 101 contributors
* editors / commentators
- copyeditors per se not needed for a while yet
* conlangers!
- the conlinguistics 101 book is going to show the development of
three languages from conception to fruition. Thus, we need those
languages - AND a very clear "story" for them, i.e. a completely
transparent development. (Of course, the actual development will
probably be complex per usual, but we're creating a *story* here.)
P.S. random: "Llevenme a la iglesia ya" just came up on my playlist.
It's.... beyond words. O.O (You may recognize it as "I'm getting
married in the morning" from _My Fair Lady_)
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