GR Seminar — Making a language

Welcome to the site of the Guided Research seminar Making a language: the art and science of conlanging.

Here you can find the course overview. For more details check the Course content and the Assessment page.

Course description

In this seminar, you will learn about and practice with conlanging, the process of creating a constructed language, or conlang.

The seminar is built around the task of crafting a conlang from the ground up while researching about common and rare linguistic patterns as found in the languages of the world, grammar writing and historical reconstruction. Through step-by-step guidance, you will learn how to develop your conlang.

You will be able to choose your assessment task from the following: a grammar sketch, which will also include a short written passage in your conlang accompanied by interlinear glossing; or the description of a constructed history of your conlang or conlang families; or an in-depth analysis of a specific phenomenon in your conlang.

Reading list

The reading list for this seminar can be found here.