ParacyclopsMark Rosenfelder's 'Syntax Construction Kit' is an accessible introduction to some pretty difficult linguistics. If you want to get started with conlanging you should get his other books, but if you've been wondering what Noam Chomsky is famous for, this is the one!
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Oliver Arditi's review of The Syntax Construction Kit
4/5: I was guided into language invention by Mark Rosenfelder's books The Language Construction Kit, Advanced Language Construction, and The Conlanger's Lexipedia. These books lay out the tools you will need, the choices you can make, and the aesthetic and practical considerations involved in constructing a naturalistic language of your own. Working from them, I have developed several languages for the fantasy world I'm building, and learned a lot about linguistics along the way. The Syntax Construction Kit is presented as an addition to Rosenfelder's toolkit, but it's really on another level in...