LINGUIST List 21.3994 Sat Oct 09 2010 Books: Artificial Languages: Hain Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, A Complete Grammar of Volapük: Hain Message 1: A Complete Grammar of Volapük: Hain Date: 30-Sep-2010 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: A Complete Grammar of Volapük: Hain E-mail this message to a friend Title: A Complete Grammar of Volapük Subtitle: Containing a lecture, grammar with numerous examples, exercises, stories, letters, with key; also conversation, and a vocabulary of 5,000 words. Series Title: LINCOM Gramatica 16 Published: 2010 Publisher: Lincom GmbH                 http://www.lincom.eu Author: Heinrich Maria Hain Paperback: ISBN: 9783895861536 Pages: 221 Price: Europe EURO 54.40 Abstract: Let it be distinctly understood that Volapük is intended to be viewed as an international, and not as a universal language, save in the sense of its being used in all places where people speak a different language. Each man's mother-tongue will always be the one best to use when speaking or writing to his fellow-countrymen on all subjects appertaining to the ordinary social relations of life, whatever the language in which, by birth, he may happen to speak. The acquired, or foreign, can never stand in the place of the naturally instilled mother-tongue of baby-life. There are nationalisms and peculiarities and verbal idiosyncrasies about one's own tongue which will always place a foreigner at a disadvantage, how long soever he may have studied, written and spoken it; and this is the case with every native language and with the people of every nation. Diversity of language is felt to be a great barrier to international intercourse. Volapük, however, is not intended to destroy that diversity, but to supplement it by the introduction of a neutral or unnatural language which the people of all nations may learn without wounded pride or national jealousy. Its intention was never meant to supersede any present dominant living language, but to be acquired in addition the mother-tongue of every people (adapted from the preface). The grammar contains chapters on orthography and pronunciation, nominal morphology (gender, declension, numeral verbs, pronouns, etc) and verbal morphology (active, passive, gerund, conditional, subjunctive, etc.), syntax, and exercises (re-edition; originally published 1888, London). 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