Esperanto's changes since inception
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 7, 2004, 23:54 |
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Greetings all.
A colleague of mine in the department is interested in studying
how Esperanto has developed into a naturalistic language over the
century or so of its use. She wants to know questions like: how
has the morphosyntax, derivational morphology and lexicon of the
language changed from Zamenhof's original conception? Does anyone
know of any good (=nonpartisan, nonproselytizing) resources on this
fact? (Obviously, since the politics of auxlanging is forbidden
from this list, I want to avoid that angle of it if at all possible.)
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Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally,
Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right
University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of
1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter.
Chicago, IL 60637
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