1st Language Creation Conference
Berkeley, CA - 23 April 2006
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Doug Ball: "Conlanging and the Linear Aspects of Syntax"


Download: Handout (PDF)
Links: HPSG - Some Leading Ideas

Jeff Burke: "Language as Growth-in-Time"


Download: JS Burke - PCM Phonological Study (PDF), JS Burke - Correspondences (PDF); Other handouts (JPG): page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Sally Caves: "The Medium and the Internet Conlanger: Vision, Venue, and Play"


Links: Teonaht Homepage

John E. Clifford: "Semantic Primes: aUI to Esperanto with Stops Along the Way"


Download: Handout (DOC), Lord's Prayer (DOC), Scan (PNG), Semantic Primes (DOC); Semantic Prime Table (XLS), contributed by Clarence Pettis.

Sai Emrys: "Non-Linear Fully 2-Dimensional Writing Systems"


Links: NLF2DWS Manifesto draft

Matt Pearson: "Case, Aspect, and Argument Structure: One Conlanger's Investigations"


Download: Handout (DOC)

David Peterson: "Down with Morphemes: What Word and Paradigm Morphology Can Teach Us About Language Creation"


Download: Presentation (PPT), Six slides (PDF)

John Quijada: "Applying Concepts from Cognitive Linguistics to Your Conlang"


Download: Book list (DOC); Handout (DOC); Presentation (PPS)
Links: Intro to Basic Concepts of Cognitive Linguistics (on ZBB)