Re: Poll by Email No. 11
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 19, 2002, 1:20 |
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Philip Newton scripsit:
> Can someone remind me what an *a priori* conlang is? Is that one which
> is not based on any natlang but is kind of created from scratch? And
> what's an *a posteriori* language?
It's typically applied to a conlang (usually an auxlang) based on the
source of the vocabulary: drawn from natlangs (a posteriori) or not
(a priori).
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