Re: Books

Ian Spackman graeffii:

>>And while I'm at it, are there any other books essential to the
>conlanger's bookshelf?
    David Crystal's _Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language_ (and pretty much
anything by him).

    John McWhorter's _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_.

    Tho' both these books mainly cover natlangs and to some degree
IALs/auxlangs, these books IMHO are great linguistics resources and inspirational as
well.

    Support your local independent used book store... and get a bargain or
two.

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Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger

     Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...

"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

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