- Title
- Words for berries In artificial languages
- Creator
- Libert, Alan Reed
- Relation
- International Asian Congress on Contemporary Sciences-V. Full Text Book: International Asian Congress on Contemporary Sciences-V (Nakhchivan State University, Azerbaijan 01-02 June, 2021) p. 662-667
- Relation
- https://www.kongreuzmani.com/site.html?https://www.asyakongresi.org
- Publisher
- IKSAD Publications
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Words for berries in natural languages are of several types: semantically transparent compounds, e.g. English blueberry, somewhat semantically opaque compounds, e.g. English cranberry and raspberry, where it is not clear what the semantic contribution of the first component is (if there is any), and non-compounds, e.g. French fraise 'strawberry'. In addition, the set of fruits which are labelled as berries can differ in different languages. Given this variation, it would be interesting to look at such words in artificial (or constructed) languages, i.e. languages which have been consciously created. The most successful artificial language is Esperanto, but there have been more than a thousand others. This paper will look at terms for berries in various types of artificial languages: a posteriori artificial languages (e.g. Esperanto), which use one or more natural languages as sources, a priori languages (e.g. Ro), which do not do this, and mixed languages (e.g. Volapük), which occupy a middle ground between the first two types. A posteriori languages can be further classified according to which languages they are based on. Questions to be investigated include whether terms for berries are compounds, and if so, whether they are fully transparent, which sources these terms are taken from (in the case of a posteriori languages drawing on more than one languages), the ways in which they are similar in form (in the case of some a priori languages), and which fruits are treated as berries. From this work one might uncover general trends in the development of the vocabularies of artificial languages.
- Subject
- artificial languages; constructed languages; food terms
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1450036
- Identifier
- uon:43810
- Identifier
- ISBN:9786057061119
- Language
- eng
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