linguistic(s) education through constructed languages
Elen Karadeniz (This is a guest blog by a student on Queen Mary's Constructing a Language course, with an interesting philosophical angle.) Descartes was deeply interested in language. What would he have made of Papašajem? “there is a great difference between a mind and a body, because the body, by its very nature, is something …
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(This is a piece I wrote for Issue 26 (Summer 2021) of Teaching English, the magazine of the National Association for Teaching English (NATE). The full version with the pretty pictures is in the mag itself!) Linguists typically spend their time analysing languages. We try to work out what makes them tick, how they differ …
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By Maya Kilgariff Based on a project for the QMUL Linguistics Constructing a Language course Fejasi Speakers! When creating a constructed language, it can be quite tempting to make it as original as possible, making choices that would be odd, or even unheard of, in natural languages in order to create a language that feels …
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Creating Languages 