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Aspects of the Grammar and Lexica of Artificial Languages
Contributor(s): Libert, Alan (Author), Moskovsky, Christo (Author)

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ISBN: 3631596782     ISBN-13: 9783631596784
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
OUR PRICE: $71.30  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: March 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Phonetics & Phonology
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Speech & Pronunciation
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Spelling & Vocabulary
LCCN: 2011453829
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" L (0.75 lbs) 180 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated
 
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This book treats various areas of the phonetics, orthography, morphology, syntax, and lexica of artificial languages in an effort to determine what features such languages have in common, and how they differ. Among the topics dealt with are affricates, digraphs, stress, plural formation, demonstratives, prepositional case assignment, color terms, terms for beverages, and terms for meteorological phenomena. Data from many artificial languages, gathered from both primary and secondary sources, are presented in an attempt to give a picture of tendencies among them. The comparative examination of the languages considered in this book demonstrates that artificial languages are relatively uniform in some phonological aspects (e.g. nasals and affricates) while they show a considerable degree of variation in relation to some morphological categories (e.g. demonstratives and plurals). With regard to vocabulary from various lexical fields, in addition to the expected differences among a priori languages, different degrees of uniformity were found among a posteriori and mixed languages with respect to lexemes with particular meanings.
 
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