Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary Languages and Their InventorsAthlone Press, 1991 - 223 pages Examines the creation of imaginary languages in history and fiction as an expression of the search for an original and primitive or universal language. The author's other works include "Les Mots et les Femmes" (1978) and "Alice au pays du Language" (1981). |
Contents
The dreamer dreaming | 15 |
Women outdreaming | 23 |
Down the stream of time | 29 |
Copyright | |
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Adamic language agglutinating artificial languages Babel Benveniste 1974 century CHAPTER Chinese Church communication consonants Couturat creation cultural denotes dream earth English Esperanto Essay evolution existence express fantasy Flournoy French German gives glossolalia glossolalic grammar guages hand Hélène Smith human hypothesis idea ideal language imaginary languages imitation Indo-European Indo-European languages intonations invented inventors Jakobson Japhetic Japhetic theory langues Latin learned Leibniz letter lingua linguistic linked logophile lunatic Marr's Mars Martian Marxism means mère mind modé Monnerot-Dumaine Moon musical myth natural languages Nicolas Marr Nodier occurs once onomatopoeia origin of language Paris Pasigraphie Pentecostalist philosophical language planet plur Port-Royal primitive language primitive words recognised roots Sanscrit Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Saussure science fiction semantic signifies sounds speakers speech spirit spiritualist spoken stage structure syllables theory things thought tion translation unconscious universal grammar universal language utopia utterances Vairasse verbs Volapük vowels xenoglossia