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Re: How do diacronic conlangers work?

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 19:38
Joseph Fatula skrev:
> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: >> - I have been thinking lately about how 'historical >> conlangers' go about their work, and am thinking of >> eventually turning the thoughts into some kind of essay. I >> would appreciate what others who are into that line of >> conlanging think of what I've come up with so far >> >> - It is notably often *not* the protolanguage (the highest >> node in the linguistic family tree) which was there >> first in real time, but some later form which gets >> labeled "classical" or some variety thereof. >> > > > Not all diachronic conlangers do it this way. I for one always start > with the ancestral language and work forwards.
It is good to learn that there are other ways, but this raises two questions for me: - Is this way of working a result of any conscious decision, or is it what comes spontaneously to you? - Have you ever changed, or been tempted to change, a higher node language to get or avoid some feature(s) in a lower node language? /BP

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Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...>