Rosenfelder Mark. Advanced Language Construction

Yonagu Books, 2012. — 184 pages. — ISBN: 1478267534.The sequel to the Language Construction Kit: learn more about constructed languages and about linguistics: logic, pidgins and creoles, sign languages, the linguistic life cycle, and a meaty step-by-step survey of morphosyntax.Create detailed and plausible languages for RPGs, fantasy and science fiction, movies, or video games… or just learn more about how languages work with the same accurate yet fun approach as the original LCK.Writing a grammar
Basic outline
Plan of attack
Creating paradigms
Placeholders vs. filling out
Wordcrafting on the go
Am I done yet?
Is it complicated enough?
Is it simple enough?
Is it weird enough?
Sample texts
Glosses
A taste of logic
Propositional logic
Predicate calculus
Loglangs
Logographic writing
Ideas
Origins
Pictures
Determiners
Stylization
Cross-language adaptations
On to syllabaries
Dictionaries
Further reading
Pidgins and creoles
Pidgins
Creoles
Origins
Tok Pisin
Mixed languages
None of the above
Further reading 83
Life cycles
Proto-World
Language acquisition
Bilingualism
Ongoing sound change
Long-term cycles
Language death
Studies in morphosyntax
Latin case
Alignment
Gender
Aspect
Valence
Modality
Mandarin syntax
Polysynthesis
The NW Caucasian verb
Sign language
Characteristics
ASL
Further reading
Putting it all together
Setting
Overall plan
Borrowings
Religion
Slang
Nonhumans
Triliteral roots
Using advanced linguistics
In a novel
Tools
Gen
SCA2