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
Tagged with: constructed languages
Posted in Article, Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Posted in Article, Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Empirical methods in language construction
BaĆak Aray UniversitĂ© Paris I â PanthĂ©on-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 âphilosophical languagesâ (Descartes, Dalgarno, Wilkins,…
Theoretical linguistics and artificial languages
Alan Reed Libert University of Newcastle, New South Wales Mainstream theoretical linguists have generally ignored artificial languages, apparently considering them unworthy of attention. This is true not only of “fictional languages” such as Klingon, but also of “serious” languages such…
Tagged with: artificial languages, constructed languages, Esperanto, government and binding, international languages, Klingon
Posted in Article, Linguistics
Posted in Article, Linguistics
Otto Jespersen and progress in international language
James McElvenny University of Sydney When it comes to expressing the ideas of our own day, the deficiencies of classical Latin appear with ruthless clarity: telephones and motor-cars and wireless have no room in Ciceronian Latin, and it will be…
Tagged with: 19th century, 20th century, aesthetics, constructed languages, Couturat, Gabelentz, grammar, history, international language, Jespersen, linguistics, Ogden, Peano, philosophy, Sapir
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 