Language Invention in Linguistics Pedagogy

Jeffrey Punske is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Southern Illinois University. His primary research focus is in morphosyntax with a secondary specialization in linguistics pedagogy and outreach. He has presented on issues of language at workshops hosted by the European Space Agency and METI and works to cross disciplinary boundaries and to advance the methodologies and discourses around linguistic pedagogy and outreach.Nathan Sanders is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. He works on innovations in linguistics pedagogy and on addressing equity, diversity, and inclusion in the linguistics classroom. His linguistic research centers on biomechanics and perception, for both speech and sign languages. He also works on phonological theory, computational and statistical models of linguistic phenomena, language change, and linguistic typology.Amy V. Fountain is Associate Professor, Career Track, in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She has taught introductory linguistics and a range of other courses at the University of Arizona since 2004. Her research focuses on language reclamation, revitalization, and endangerment, particularly with reference to Native American languages; she is also interested in prosodic phonology and the relationship between morphology and phonology.

• 1: Jeffrey Punske, Nathan Sanders, and Amy V. Fountain: Introduction 2: Nathan Sanders: A primer on constructed languages 3: Arika Okrent: Budding linguists and how to find them 4: Jessica Coon: The linguistics of Arrival: Heptapods, field linguistics, and Universal Grammar 5: David Adger and Coppe van Urk: Three conlang projects at three educational levels 6: Grant Goodall: The design(ing) of language 7: Matt Pearson: Using language invention to teach typology and cross-linguistic universals 8: Angela C. Carpenter: Teaching invented languages to the undergraduate major: A capstone course 9: James A. Berry: Teaching invented languages as an introductory course: Unfamiliar territory 10: Carrie Gillon, Edward Delmonico, Randi Martinez, and Spencer Morrell: Bringing language construction from the classroom to the community 11: Nathan Sanders and Christine Schreyer: The interdisciplinarity of conlangs: Moving beyond linguistics 12: Brenna Reinhart Byrd and Andrew Miles Byrd: Teaching Proto-Indo-European as a constructed language 13: Skye J. Anderson, Shannon T. Bischoff, Jeffrey Punske, and Amy V. Fountain: Learning about language through language invention: "I was really proud of the language I created" 14: Sheri Wells-Jenson and Kimberly Spallinger: Extraterrestrial message construction: Guidelines for the use of xenolinguistics in the classroom 15: David J. Peterson: Artistry in language invention: Conlang pedagogy and the instructor as authority

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