Monday, October 27, 2014

Plans for the next twelve months

This blog is just about to turn two years. I figure presenting some plans for the incoming year may be a good idea.

So, here's the main things I will strive to develop:
  • More reviews of linguistic works; this far only one book has been reviewed, although I intend to write a review soon of Newmeyer's Possible and Probable Languages.
  • More pragmatics, and especially I'd like to get into information structure, a topic that I am not particularly knowledgeable about but want to get into. Information structure-related concerns seem to have potential for some great conlanging ideas.
  • More details from real-world languages, mostly presented in relation to original ideas. Basically as a way of introducing some real-world typology into the blog.
  • More Dairwueh, Barxaw, Tatediem, Bryatesle and Ćwarmin. (For the simple reason that they're getting to a point now where they are solid generators of ideas.)
  • Some observations and thoughts on the analysis of structures in conlangs (and structures in languages more generally), especially with regards to typologically uncommon (or even unattested) structures or absences of structures.
  • Some light controversy. I intend to write a detailed argument regarding bringing up children in conlangs.
  • Presenting a model for linguistics, and analyzing its benefits and drawbacks as well as some more general implications about linguistics. Not going to have any controversial stances there, so no attempt at a Chomskyan revolution from an amateur linguist, but rather an attempt at understanding what linguistics is about from another angle.
So there, some things to look forward to in 2015 (as well as the two months left of 2014). If I hadn't written this out, it's possible I might've forgotten some of these ideas or not just bothered to carry the ideas out. Now, I am at least somewhat committed to writing these things.

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