36.3205, Books: How to Create a Language: Peterson (2025)

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Subject: 36.3205, Books: How to Create a Language: Peterson (2025)

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Date: 21-Oct-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: How to Create a Language: Peterson (2025)


Title: How to Create a Language
Subtitle: The Conlang Guide
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/how-create-language-conlang-guide?format=HB&isbn=9781108834070

Author(s): Jessie Peterson

Hardback ISBN:  9781108834070 Pages:  454 Price: U.K. £ 74.99
Hardback ISBN:  9781108834070 Pages:  454 Price: Europe EURO 87.52
Hardback ISBN:  9781108834070 Pages:  454 Price: U.S. $ 99.99
Paperback ISBN:  9781108995610 Pages:  454 Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback ISBN:  9781108995610 Pages:  454 Price: Europe EURO 30.33
Paperback ISBN:  9781108995610 Pages:  454 Price: U.S. $ 32.99

Abstract:

Designed specifically for class use, this text guides students through
developing their own full, working constructed language. It introduces
basic concepts and the decisions students need to make about their
conlang's speakers and world, before walking them through the process
of conlanging in incremental stages, from selecting a language's
sounds to choices about its grammar. It includes hundreds of examples
from natural and constructed languages, and over seventy
end-of-chapter exercises that allow students to apply concepts to an
in-progress conlang and guide them in developing their own conlang.
Ideal for undergraduates, the text is also suitable for more advanced
students through the inclusion of clearly highlighted sections
containing advanced material and optional conlang challenges.
Instructor resources include an interactive slideshow for selecting
stress patterns, an exercise answer guide and a sample syllabus, and
student resources include a 'select-a-feature' conlang adventure, a
spreadsheet of conlang features, and supplementary documentation for
the exercises.

Written In: English (eng)



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