A few notes on the evolution of Esperanto

Chapters in this book

1. I-X I
2. Part I: Introductions
3. The proof of the pudding ... 3
4. Interlinguistics – its aims, its achievements, and its place in language science 7
5. Part II: Planned Languages in Linguistics
6. Ethnic language and planned language 47
7. Planned languages – a survey of some of the main problems 63
8. Interlingustics: a branch of applied linguistics? 89
9. Part III: Language Design and Language Change
10. Principles for constructing Planned Languages 101
11. Optimization in language planning 121
12. A few notes on the evolution of Esperanto 129
13. Part IV: Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics
14. Linguistic artificiality and cognitive competence 145
15. Who are the speakers of Esperanto? 157
16. Planned auxiliary language and communicative competence 173
17. Part V: The Language of Literature
18. Planning nonstandard language 191
19. If Shakespeare had written in Esperanto... 211
20. Part VI: Grammar
21. Degree words in Esperanto and categories in Universal Grammar 231
22. An unplanned development in planned languages 249
23. Part VII: Terminology and Computational Lexicography
24. Terminological standardization – its roots and fruits in planned languages 277
25. Terminics in the interethnic language 293
26. Knowledge-driven terminography for machine translation 311
27. Index 336
28. 347-350 347