LINGUIST List 22.2295 Tue May 31 2011 FYI: Looking for Academics Interested in Conlanging Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     David Peterson , Looking for Academics Interested in Conlanging Message 1: Looking for Academics Interested in Conlanging Date: 27-May-2011 From: David Peterson <dedalvsgmail.com> Subject: Looking for Academics Interested in Conlanging E-mail this message to a friend Do you (or does someone you know) use or investigate constructed languages [0] in your academic or teaching work [1], or are you an academic linguist who also creates languages as a hobby? If so, we'd love to hear from you. The Language Creation Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting, developing, and appreciating constructed languages. We are working on compiling an informal public listing of all the information out there related to language creation, and could use your support. In this regard, we'd love to hear from or about linguists and other academics who work with constructed languages, but would especially appreciate links to and/or citations on papers, class syllabi, presentations, handouts, etc. that have been used in the past. If you're interested in sharing, please contact Sai at saizai.com> who's spearheading this project. Once we have a decent-sized list, we'll follow up with a link to our listing. Thanks very much for your time! David Peterson LCS President lcsconlang.org www.conlang.org [0] For a quick overview, please see: http://conlang.org/press.php [1] Some examples: * Using language creation as a didactic method to teach (typically) Linguistics 101 type courses, e.g.: - Prof. Wells-Jensen (Bowling Green U.): http://www.fridaynightlinguistics.org/languagecreation/ - Prof. Hardman (U. Florida): https://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/LSFsyllabus.html - Prof. Bigham (Texas Tech U.): https://webspace.utexas.edu/bighamds/LIN312/HomeFrameset-3.htm - Chris Doty (U. Oregon): http://www.csdoty.com/courses/conlang/index.html * Using small/nonce artificial mini-languages to probe (usually cognitive) linguistics questions, e.g.: - Drs. Friederici (Max Planck Inst. CogNeuro), Steinhauer (Georgetown U.), & Pfiefer (MPICN): http://www.pnas.org/content/99/1/529.long - Drs. Gómez (Johns Hopkins U.) & Gerken (U. Arizona): http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~creel/COGS156/COGS156_files/gomezge rken02.pdf - Dr. Mintz (U. Southern California): http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~langdev/Memory%26Cognition_Mintz.pdf * Investigating the anthropological side of current or historical created languages and language creators, e.g.: - Prof. Higley (U. Rochester): http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0003/languages.php and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403976732/conlangorg-20 - Prof. Сидорова (Moscow State U.): http://www.philol.msu.ru/~sidorova/files/conlangs.pdf - Arika Okrent: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385527888/conlangorg-20 Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 31-May-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.