Contributors wanted f or book on "Invented Languages"

[Michael Adams]

The whole book will really be about constructed languages and not about
perceptual or folk dialectology (wonderful topics in themselves), so it
won't deal with putative singular "y'all" or with RP (though, with the
BBC's help, RP is a little closer).  One of the book's basic questions
is, "With so many natural languages around, what motivates anyone to
make one up?"  Obviously, the motives are various, but the languages in
question often share aesthetic, political, social, and linguistic
motives.  It's a book that looks into the inventive impulse in
linguistics.

The questions underlying langustic invention may be answerable -- I'm
not sure that we'll ever adequately explain the myth of singular
"y'all."

Of course, you may have been joking when you asked the questions, but
it's too late now.

-----Original Message-----
From: RonButters at AOL.COM
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Sent:         Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:45:00 EDT
Subject:       Re:       Contributors wanted f or book on "Invented
Languages"

  In a message dated 7/21/05 2:00:27 PM, madams1448 at AOL.COM writes:


> I am currently editing an book on "Invented Languages" for the Oxford
> University Press.
>

Will this include the singular y'all?

What about RP?