Linguistics 392A - The Dream of a Perfect Lang.
Spring
2015
01
3.00
Angelika Kratzer
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
19468
What makes a language perfect? How perfect are natural languages compared to their artificial counterparts? This seminar looks at a selection of artificial languages (e.g. 17th and 18th century concept calculi, Esperanto, Klingon), but also at opinions voiced by scholars ranging from Dante to Chomsky stressing that even natural languages might be close to perfect. Prerequisite: LINGUIST 201.
Pre Req: LINGUIST 201