Just a brief plug for this book which is authored by one of the investigators on the Ponying the Slovos project.
Though it doesn’t directly address issues of invented languages, as the first text on Anthony Burgess’s fiction in a generation, it may well be of interest to those who enjoy and study his work.
Here is the second article published by the Parallel Translation Corpus team. In it, we seek to linguistically define Nadsat so as better to examine how its functions, effects, and construction vary across translations, which is the subject of the first article published by the team, and of future articles in planning.
This article originally appeared in Babel magazine issue 19: http://www.babelzine.com/
LIVES IN LANGUAGE
Jim Clarke examines the linguistic legacy of novelist, composer and amateur philologist Anthony Burgess on the centenary of his birth.
