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Esperanto linguistics

State of the art

 | Esperantic Studies Foundation
Published online: 27 October 2017
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Abstract
Esperanto is an unusual language in many ways. First, it was originally created artificially, in a highly multilingual environment. Secondly, it was designed with the express purpose of becoming a language of interlingual communication, a language easy to learn for people from the widest range of linguistic backgrounds. Although it never became a universal lingua franca, Esperanto now has up to 2 million users and a sizeable number of native speakers. Yet even for such native speakers, Esperanto is never their only language. Its use is limited to certain domains, and for the overwhelming majority of its speakers, including native ones, Esperanto is not their dominant language. These facts may make Esperanto and Esperanto speakers useful in tests of the robustness of generalizations about linguistic typology, Universal Grammar, first and second language acquisition, language contact and creolization, variation and change. This article provides an overview of work that has been done to date on these topics.
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Эсперантистика: современное состояние
Эсперанто является необычным языком во многих отношениях: во-первых, он был изначально создан искусственно, в очень многоязычной среде. Кроме того, он был разработан с целью стать языком межъязыковой коммуникации, таким языком, который будет легко выучить носителям самых разнообразных языков. Хотя эсперанто так и не стал универсальным лингва франка, эсперанто теперь имеет до 2-х миллионов пользователей и значительное число носителей языка как родного. Но даже для таких носителей языка, эсперанто никогда не является их единственным языком. Его использование ограничено определенными областями, и для подавляющего большинства пользователей, в том числе носителей языка, эсперанто не является доминирующим языком. Благодаря этим фактам эсперанто и говорящие на нем представляют интерес для лингвистов в качестве полигона для тестировании обобщений и теорий в области лингвистической типологии, универсальной грамматики, усвоения первого и непервого языков, языкового контакта и креолизации, вариативности и исторических изменений в языке. Данная статья представляет собой обзор работ на сегодняшний день по этим темам.
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Esperanto-lingvistiko: La nuna evolustato
Esperanto estas neordinara lingvo en multaj rilatoj. Unue, ĝi origine estis kreita artefarite, en ege multlingva ĉirkaŭaĵo. Aldone, ĝi estis kreita kun la klara celo fariĝi lingvo por interlingva komunikado, lingvo facile lernebla por homoj kun plej vasta gamo de lingvaj fonoj. Kvankam ĝi neniam fariĝis universala lingua franca, Esperanto nun havas ĝis du milionojn da uzantoj kaj konsiderindan nombron da denaskuloj. Tamen, eĉ por tiuj denaskuloj Esperanto neniam estas la sola lingvo. Ĝia uzado estas limigita al certaj terenoj, kaj por la granda plimulto da parolantoj, inkluzive de la denaskuloj, Esperanto ne estas la ĉefa lingvo. Tiuj faktoj faras Esperanton kaj Esperanto-parolantojn utilaj en esploroj pri la fortikeco de ĝeneraligoj pri lingvistika tipologio, Universala Gramatiko, lernado de la gepatra kaj dua lingvoj, lingvokontakto kaj kreoliĝo, lingvovariado kaj ŝanĝiĝo. Tiu ĉi artikolo estas superrigardo pri aktualaj laboroj kiuj estas ĝis nun faritaj pri tiuj temoj.
Article outline
  • 1.Linguistic descriptions of Esperanto
  • 2.Esperanto and linguistic typology
  • 3.Esperanto as a native language
  • 4.Esperanto, creole studies and contact linguistics
  • 5.Esperanto and bilingualism
  • 6.Esperanto and the Hebrew “revival”
  • 7.Standardization of Esperanto
  • 8.Esperanto humor
  • 9.Esperanto and second language acquisition
  • 10.Areas for future research
  • References
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