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David Peterson

The Art of Language Invention

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An insider's tour through the construction of invented languages from the bestselling author and creator of languages for the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Syfy series DefianceFrom master language creator David J. Peterson comes a creative guide to language construction for sci-fi and fantasy fans, writers, game creators, and language lovers. Peterson offers a captivating overview of language creation, covering its history from Tolkien's creations and Klingon to today's thriving global community of conlangers. He provides the essential tools necessary for inventing and evolving new languages, using examples from a variety of languages including his own creations, punctuated with references to everything from Star Wars to Michael Jackson. Along the way, behind-the-scenes stories lift the curtain on how he built languages like Dothraki for HBO's Game of Thrones and Shiväisith for Marvel's Thor: The Dark World, and an…
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  • Darya Bukhtoyarovaцитирует5 лет назад
    The dative case is one of the more common cases you’ll find in the world’s languages. Outside of the core alignment cases, the dative is most likely to be the third or fourth case found in a language
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovaцитирует5 лет назад
    in an ergative-absolutive language, the subject of an intransitive verb (in the first and third sentence, the one who experiences sleep) and the object of a transitive verb (the one who experiences a hug) are marked with the same case.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovaцитирует5 лет назад
    As with sex-based gender systems, phonological similarity will tend to trump semantics in many cases. For example, in Dothraki, all words that end with a collective suffix are treated as animate, such as hoyalasar “music,” ikhisir “ash,” and vovosor “weaponry.”

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