Re: OT: Research Paper Topic

One I can think of, off the top of my head, is "The perils of the relex",
detailing how easy it is to let the resident substratum of one's birth
language to override the logic of the conlang's own grammar and vocab.

Then there is the "A Priori and A Posteriori Conlangs", giving a breakdown of
conlangs into their derivations from spoken languages or the ideas one has
gathered in one's own head.

Just two ideas.

Make of them what you will.

Wesley Parish

On Wednesday 16 April 2003 06:43 pm, you wrote:
> I'm taking a linguistics course from a professor who likes the ideas of
> conlangs, but doesn't know much about them.  I have to do a 12-15 page
> research paper on a lingusitic subject.  I'm currently signing up for
> Language & Computers, but I _might_ be able to convince her to let me do a
> more conlang-related topic if I could come up with a decent idea that would
> need 12-15 pages to cover.
>
> Any ideas?  I would be very very very grateful.
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