MLN: Modern Language Notes is an academic journal founded in 1886 at the
Johns Hopkins University, where it is still edited and published, with the
intention of introducing continental European literary criticism into American
scholarship. One issue is devoted to each of the four languages of concern. The
fifth issue focuses on comparative literature. The general editor is Dr. Rainer
Nägele of Johns Hopkins University.
The journal is published five times each year in January (Italian), March
(Hispanic), April (German), September (French), December (Comparative
literature). Circulation is 1,173 and the average length of an issue is 240
pages.
A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them.
Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
Though commonly used as a means of communication among people, human language is
only one instance of this phenomenon. This article concerns the properties of
language in general. For information specifically on the use of language by
humans see the main article on natural language.
Properties of language
Languages are not just sets of symbols. They also contain a grammar, or system
of rules, used to manipulate the symbols. While a set of symbols may be used for
expression or communication, it is primitive and relatively inexpressive,
because there are no clear or regular relationships between the symbols. Because
a language also has a grammar, it can manipulate its symbols to express clear
and regular relationships between them.
Another property of language is the arbitrariness of the symbols. Any symbol can
be mapped onto any concept (or even onto one of the rules of the grammar). For
instance, there is nothing about the Spanish word nada itself that forces
Spanish speakers to use it to mean "nothing". That is the meaning all Spanish
speakers have memorized for that sound pattern. But for Croatian, Serbian or
Bosnian speakers, nada means "hope".
However, it must be understood that just because in principle the symbols are
arbitrary does not mean that a language cannot have symbols that are iconic of
what they stand for. Words such as "meow" sound similar to what they represent
(see Onomatopoeia), but they could be replaced with words such as "jarn", and as
long as everyone memorized the new word, the same concepts could be expressed
with it.
Human languages
Human languages are usually referred to as natural languages, and the science of
studying them is linguistics. It should be remembered that languages are first
of all spoken, then written, then an understanding and explanation of their
grammar (according to speech) is attempted.
Languages live, die, move from place to place and change with time. Any language
that stops changing begins to die. In other words, any language that is a living
language is a language in a state of continuous change.
Making a principled distinction between one language and another is usually
impossible. For instance, there are a few dialects of German similar to some
dialects of Dutch. The transition between languages within the same language
family is sometimes gradual
Some like to make parallels with biology, where it is not always possible to
make a well-defined distinction between one species and the next. In either
case, the ultimate difficulty may stem from the interactions between languages
and populations.
The concepts of Ausbausprache, Abstandsprache and Dachsprache are used to make
finer distinctions about the degrees of difference between languages or
dialects.
International auxiliary languages
International auxiliary language
Some languages are meant specifically for communication between people of
different nationalities or language groups. Several of these languages have been
constructed by an individual or group, as noted below. Others are seen as
natural, pre-existing languages. Their developers merely catalogued and
standardized their vocabulary and identified their grammatical rules. These
languages are called naturalistic. One such language, Latino Sine Flexione, is a
simplified form of Latin. Another, Occidental, was drawn from several Western
languages.
To date, the most successful auxiliary language is Esperanto, invented by the
Polish ophthalmologist Zamenhof, which has about 2 million speakers over the
world and which has hundreds of songs sung in it, and a vast amount of
literature written in it. The Stone City, for example, was originally written in
Esperanto. Other auxiliary languages with an important group of speakers are
Interlingua and Ido (however, the latter is believed to have only a few hundred
speakers).
Controlled natural languages are subsets of natural languages whose grammars and
dictionaries have been restricted in order to reduce or eliminate both ambiguity
and complexity. The purpose behind the development and implementation of a
controlled natural language typically is to aid non-native speakers of a natural
language in understanding it, or to ease computer processing of a natural
language. An example of a widely used controlled natural language is Simplified
English, which was originally developed for aerospace industry maintenance
manuals.
Constructed languages
Some individuals and groups have constructed their own artificial languages, for
practical, experimental, personal or ideological reasons. For example, one
prominent artificial language, Esperanto, was created by L. L. Zamenhof as a
compilation of various elements of different languages, and is supposed to be an
easy-to-learn language for people familiar with similar, mostly Indo-European,
languages. Other constructed languages strive to be more logical ("loglangs")
than natural languages; a prominent example of this is Lojban. Both of these
languages are meant as international auxiliary languages.
Some writers, such as J. R. R. Tolkien, have created fantasy languages, for
literary, artistic or personal reasons.
Constructed languages are not necessarily restricted to the properties shared by
natural human languages.
The study of language
Linguistics
The historical record of linguistics begins in India with Pāṇini, the 5th
century BCE grammarian who formulated 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology, known
as the Aṣṭādhyāyī (अष्टाध्यायी) and with Tolkāppiyar the 3rd century BCE
grammarian of the Tamil work Tolkāppiyam. Pāṇini’s grammar is highly
systematized and technical. Inherent in its analytic approach are the concepts
of the phoneme, the morpheme, and the root; the phoneme was only recognized by
Western linguists some two millennia later. Tolkāppiyar's work is perhaps the
first one to describe articulatory phonetics for a language. Its classification
of the alphabet into consonants and vowels, and elements like nouns, verbs,
vowels and consonants which he put into classes, were also breakthroughs at the
time.
In the Middle East, the Persian linguist Sibawayh made a detailed and
professional description of Arabic in 760 CE in his monumental work, Al-kitab fi
al-nahw (الكتاب في النحو, The Book on Grammar), bringing many linguistic aspects
of language to light. In his book he distinguished phonetics from phonology.
Later in the West, the success of science, mathematics, and other formal systems
in the 20th century led many to attempt a formalization of the study of language
as a "semantic code". This resulted in the academic discipline of linguistics,
the founding of which is attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure. In the 20th
century substantial contribution to the understanding of language came from
Ferdinand de Saussure, Hjelmslev, Émile Benveniste and Roman Jakobson;they were
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Do animals use language?
Animal language
The term "animal languages" is often used for nonhuman languages. Linguists do
not consider these to be language, but describe them as animal communication,
because such communication is fundamentally different in its underlying
principles from true language, which has been found in humans only.
In several publicized instances, nonhuman animals have been taught to understand
certain features of human language. Chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans have
been taught hand signs based on American Sign Language; however, they have never
been successfully taught grammar. In 2003, a saved Bonobo ape named Kanzi
allegedly independently created some words to convey certain concepts. The
African Grey Parrot, which possesses the ability to mimic human speech with a
high degree of accuracy, is suspected of having sufficient intelligence to begin
to comprehend some of the speech it mimics. Most species of parrot, despite
expert mimicry, are believed to have no linguistic comprehension at all.
While proponents of animal communication systems have debated levels of
semantics, these systems have not been found to have anything approaching human
language syntax. The situation with dolphins and whales presents a special case
in that there is some evidence that spontaneous development of complex vocal
language is occurring, but it certainly has not been proven.
Some researchers argue that a continuum exists among the communication methods
of all social animals, pointing to the fundamental requirements of group
behavior and the existence of "mirror cells" in primates. This, however, is
still a scientific question. What exactly is the definition of the word
"language"? Most researchers agree that, although human and more primitive
languages have analogous features, they are not .
Formal languages
Mathematics and computer science use artificial entities called formal languages
(including programming languages and markup languages, and some that are more
theoretical in nature). These often take the form of character strings, produced
by some combination of formal grammar and semantics of arbitrary complexity.
Programming languages
A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the
behavior of a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages, like
human languages, are defined through the use of syntactic and semantic rules, to
determine structure and meaning respectively.
Programming languages are used to facilitate communication about the task of
organizing and manipulating information, and to express algorithms precisely.
Some authors restrict the term "programming language" to those languages that
can express all possible algorithms; sometimes the term "computer language" is
used for more limited artificial languages.
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