A.W. Carus Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich The question how language, a sequence of events in spacetime, can have meaning — which seems not to be in spacetime — has puzzled philosophers since antiquity, though it only came…
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The utility of constructed languages
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Posted in Article, Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Posted in Article, Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Esperanto: some observations of a speaker-linguist
Ken Miner University of Kansas (emer.) Esperantism is one of those many small worlds that have more substance to them than outsiders think but less than most insiders think. The twain rarely meet. Much linguistic attention to Esperanto, including almost all…
Empirical methods in language construction
Başak Aray Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, EXeCO (PHICO) Efforts to establish an international auxiliary language (IAL) have a long history. Projects to overcome ethnic languages flourished in the 17th century Britain. Creators of these “philosophical languages” (Descartes, Dalgarno, Wilkins,…
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 