Mugz
Bluelighter
I notice there are a lot of threads with poems and stories and other things, but I can't find any that discuss the basic principles of linguistics. I thought I'd start a thread and hopefully it will grow as more people contribute their experience with studying linguistics and the many basic concepts in more detail. I've only really just been reading this wiki page so far.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_linguistics#Basic_concepts
What basic concepts / terms do I have to know to talk about linguistics?
Morphology
morpheme, inflection, paradigm, declension, derivation, compound
Phonology
phoneme, allophone, segment, mora, syllable, foot, stress, tone
Grammar
tense, aspect, mood and modality, grammatical number, grammatical gender, case
Syntax
phrase, clause, grammatical function, grammatical voice
Lexicology
word, lexeme, lemma, lexicon, vocabulary, terminology
Semantics
meaning, sense, entailment, truth condition, compositionality
Pragmatics
presupposition, implicature, deixis
There is a lot there to read just for the basics. Not sure if anyone has seen my thread in EADD about creating a new written language based on symbols rather than a traditional alphabet. So reading up on some basic rules of linguistics seems like an important thing for me to do.
Can anyone suggest which parts of the study of linguistics are most important to be learning about when creating a new language from scratch?
I'm currently looking at the Syntax section as I don't want my symbols to just be a translation of English, it needs to have it's own rules on structure and rules for creating sentences that are not just the same as english but are unique to the language that I am creating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_linguistics#Basic_concepts
What basic concepts / terms do I have to know to talk about linguistics?
Morphology
morpheme, inflection, paradigm, declension, derivation, compound
Phonology
phoneme, allophone, segment, mora, syllable, foot, stress, tone
Grammar
tense, aspect, mood and modality, grammatical number, grammatical gender, case
Syntax
phrase, clause, grammatical function, grammatical voice
Lexicology
word, lexeme, lemma, lexicon, vocabulary, terminology
Semantics
meaning, sense, entailment, truth condition, compositionality
Pragmatics
presupposition, implicature, deixis
There is a lot there to read just for the basics. Not sure if anyone has seen my thread in EADD about creating a new written language based on symbols rather than a traditional alphabet. So reading up on some basic rules of linguistics seems like an important thing for me to do.
Can anyone suggest which parts of the study of linguistics are most important to be learning about when creating a new language from scratch?
I'm currently looking at the Syntax section as I don't want my symbols to just be a translation of English, it needs to have it's own rules on structure and rules for creating sentences that are not just the same as english but are unique to the language that I am creating.
