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CRITICAL REMARKS ON NOVIAL
Author(s) -
Talmey Max
Publication year - 1929
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1929.tb01274.x
Subject(s) - naturalness , linguistics , natural (archaeology) , philosophy , history , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
Author's Summary.— A critical linguistic examination of Jespersen's “Novial” shows that it fails signally in naturalness, i.e. correspondence to the natural languages, an important desideratum for any International Language.)