Linguistics Books – Bannersglare

Oodles Of Unami | Brlfam\’s Brilliant Bibliotheque

Robert-Scott Bannersglare March 19, 2023 No Comments

\"Components with and without an extension may have the same meaning or may have different specializations or degrees of productivity.\" --Unami, Goddard pg. 116

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The Last Speaker, by K. David Anderson | Literature Discussion

Robert-Scott Bannersglare October 18, 2021 No Comments

\"All of us benefit from maintaining the human knowledge base, and therefore we all benefit from a multitudinous Babel of tongues.\" - K. David Anderson, pg. 86

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Desky Kernowek, by Nicholas Williams | Literature Review

Robert-Scott Bannersglare May 31, 2021 No Comments

\"If we are attempting to resuscitate the ancestral language of Cornwall, we must surely do our best to revive it as it was spoken natively by the Cornish people\" -…

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The Life of Zamenhof, by Aleksander Korzhenkov | Literature Review

Robert-Scott Bannersglare May 21, 2021 1 Comment

Although Esperanto is bit of a niche language, it is still captivating how its creation by one man managed to be spread to millions of people. Plot Essentially, this is…

Bannersglare's Tsundoku (Archived) Linguistics Books

The Life Story Of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda | Literature Review

Robert-Scott Bannersglare March 28, 2021 No Comments

A language is only dead if it has no one to speak for it.

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Describing Morphosyntax, by Thomas E. Payne | Literature Review

Robert-Scott Bannersglare March 21, 2021 No Comments

I regret not reading this before Evolution of Grammar, since it provides a lot of in-depth explanations about the terms used in the former book. I decided to rent this…

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The Evolution Of Grammar, by Joan Bybee, et al | Literature Review

Robert-Scott Bannersglare December 29, 2020 No Comments

This is definitely a book that can be expected to be assigned in any linguistics course, but it was worth it for the purposes of my conlanging research. Synopsis The…

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The Unfolding of Language, By Guy Deutscher | Literature Review

Robert-Scott Bannersglare December 9, 2020 No Comments

This was another suggestion made by YouTuber Bibliaridion, who specializes in conlangs.

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Language Construction Kit, by Mark Rosenfelder | Literature Review

Robert-Scott Bannersglare September 27, 2020 No Comments

This is the second conlanging book that I have read for my blog. It has helped me in ways that Peterson\’s book did not, yet it also misses some points…

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The Art Of Language Invention, by David J. Peterson | Literature Review

Robert-Scott Bannersglare September 23, 2020 No Comments

I have decided to read this on Kindle because I do not feel like waiting for the physical copy to arrive, especially during this pandemic when the shipping is a…