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Re: Article on Artificial Languages

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 5:17
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From: "David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...>

>I just got word of an article that's to appear in Routledge's > Encyclopedia of Linguistics--a two volume set: > > http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/linguistics/ > > I heard that there was going to be an article on artificial > languages, and a professor here at UCSD (an Esperantist) > sent it as an attachment. So I read it. And uploaded it > here: > > http://ling.ucsd.edu/~djp/dlstuff/esperantic.pdf > > I think it's about four pages long. It discusses, amongst > many other fascinating topics: > > (1) Various auxiliary languages > (2) Attempts at regularizing old European languages > (3) Volapuk > (4) Esperanto
Yeah. Read it.
> And that's it. This is how artificial languages are being > represented in a major linguistic work. Sally: How's that > book coming?
The less you see of me, the more I'm getting done. :) The Survey was really helpful, thanks, guys. S.