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Language Designer: History
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A language designer is a person who develops the formal properties and structural components of a language system, including its grammatical rules, lexical organization, phonological or orthographic conventions, and other mechanisms that determine how linguistic forms are created and interpreted. In linguistics, the term may refer to individuals involved in the systematic construction or modification of natural or artificial languages, with the scope of the concept distinguished from language users, who acquire and employ an existing language system, and language analysts, who describe and study linguistic structures rather than intentionally creating them [1].

  • language construction
  • artificial language
  • linguistic structure
  • grammar design

References

  1. Sims, H. J. (2010). [Review of In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers who Tried to Build a Perfect Language, by A. Okrent]. Mythlore, 29(1/2 (111/112)), 176–179. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26815550
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