Carolina Gonzalez

Inventing Languages

A Practical Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grounded on world building and the variation displayed by the world's languages, this book is an engaging, step-by-step guide to language invention. It presents a creative, interdisciplinary approach to conlanging that can be of interest to readers interested in language invention, particularly those without a previous background in linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108799416
• ISBN-10: 1108799418
• Artikelnr.: 71954508

Autorenporträt

Carolina González is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Florida State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. What are constructed languages?
2. World building
3. Designing vowel inventories
4. Designing consonant inventories
5. From sounds to syllables
6. Stress and tone
7. The lexicon
8. The morphology of nouns
9. The morphology of verbs
10. Word order
11. Statements, questions and commands
12. Negation and evidentials
13. Complex sentences
14. Writing systems
15. Semantics and pragmatics
16. Variation in space and time
17. Language channels and modalities
18. Wrapping up and moving forward
Appendix A: natlangs mentioned
Appendix B: conlangs mentioned.