Bibliography of Esperanto Studies and Interlinguistics
prepared by Mark Fettes
The following is a selection of materials primarily in English, French, German and Russian. Researchers should be aware that high quality work exists in various smaller national languages, and above all in Esperanto.
The Virtuala Esperanto-Bilioteko includes up-to-date links to on-line catalogues and web pages on interlinguistics.
Periodicals, Series, and Bibliographies
Bibliography of Linguistic Literature (BLL). Frankfurt: Klostermann. (Section: Plansprachen/Artificial languages)
Bibliographie linguistique de l’année… et complément des années précédentes. Ed. Comité International Permanent des Linguistes. Utrecht: Spectrum. (Section: Interlinguistics [planned languages] – Interlinguistique [langues planifiées])
Dulic^enko, Aleksandr (1983). Sovetskaja interlingvistika. Annotirovanaja bibliografija za 1946-1982 gg. Tartu: Tartuskij gosudartstvennyj universitet.
Esperantic Studies. Washington, DC: Esperantic Studies Foundation. ISSN 1084-9831.
Informilo por Interlingvistoj. Rotterdam: Centro de Esploro kaj Dokumentado pri la Monda Lingvo-Problemo. ISSN 1385-2191.
Interlinguistica tartuensis (1982-). Subseries of Acta et commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis (Tartu, Estonia, USSR).
Interlinguistics (regular section in Language Problems and Language Planning). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISSN 0272-2690.
Interlinguistische Informationen. Berlin: Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik e.V. ISSN 1430-2888.
MLA international bibliography of books and articles on the modern languages and literatures, vol. 3, Linguistics. New York: Modern Languages Association of America. (Section: Auxiliary languages. International languages.)
Stojan, Petr. E. (1973): Bibliografio de Internacia Lingvo. Hildesheim-New York: Olms.
Symoens, Edward F (1989). Dissertations on Esperanto and interlinguistics. Rotterdam: Universala Esperanto-Asocio. See also the 1993 Supplement.
Tonkin, Humphrey (comp.) (1977). Esperanto and international language problems: a research bibliography, 4th edn. Washington, DC: Esperantic Studies Foundation.
Monographs on Planned Languages
Blanke, Detlev (1985). Internationale Plansprachen. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. Thorough survey of attempts to design an international language, with strong emphasis on social aspects.
Couturat, Louis/ Leau, Léopold (1979): Histoire de la langue universelle. Les nouvelles langues internationales. Hildesheim-New York: Olms. Classic typological survey from 1902-6.
Dulic^enko, Aleksandr (1990). Mez^dunarodnye vspomogatel’nye jazyki. Tallinn: Valgus. Encyclopedic survey of over 900 projects.
Eco, Umberto (1993). La ricerca della lingua perfetta. Roma: Laterza. Includes chapter on international auxiliary languages.
Haupenthal, Reinhard (1976, Hrsg.): Plansprachen. Beiträge zur Interlinguistik. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft. Collection of important articles.
Kuznecov, Sergej Nikolaevic{< (1987). Teoretic^eskie osnovy interlingvistiki. Moskva: Universitet druz{Large, [J.] Andrew (1985). The artificial language movement. Oxford: Blackwell. Popular exposition covering 17th-20th centuries.
Sakaguchi, Alicja (1998): Interlinguistik. Gegenstand, Ziele, Aufgaben, Methoden. Frankurt/M. etc.: Peter Lang. Ambitious theoretical work emphasizing semiotic aspects.
Schubert, Klaus (ed.) (1989). Interlinguistics: aspects of the science of planned languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Psychological, literary, grammatical, terminological, and engineering studies.
Serta gratulatoria in honorem Juan Régulo, vol. 2: Esperantismo (1987). La Laguna: Universidad de la Laguna. Articles in various languages on Esperanto movement, literature, language.
Szerdahelyi, István (ed.) (1980). Miscellanea interlinguistica. Budapest: Tankönyvkiadó. Multilingual reader for university courses.
Tonkin, Humphrey (1997, Ed.): Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language. Lanham etc.: University Press of America. Articles from Language Problems and Language Planning, 1986-1994.
Interlinguistics and Language Policy
Fettes, Mark (1997). Esperanto and language policy: Exploring the issues. Language Problems and Language Planning 21, 66-77.
Fettes, Mark, and Suzanne Bolduc (Eds., 1998). Towards Linguistic Democracy / Vers la démocratie linguistique / Al lingva demokratio. Rotterdam: Universal Esperanto Association.
Glossop, Ronald (1988). Language policy and a just world order. Alternatives, 13, 395-409.
Humblet, Jean E (1984). The language problem in international organizations. International Social Science Journal, 36, 143-55.
Mattusch, Max Hans-Juergen (1999). Vielsprachigkeit: Fluch oder Segen für die Menschheit? Zur Fragen einer europäischen und globalen Fremdsprachenpolitik. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Well-argued plea for multilevel language planning framework including planned languages.
Müller, Kurt E. (ed.) (1992). Language as Barrier and Bridge. Lanham: University Press of America. Papers from the Conferences on Language and Communication, New York.
Müller, Kurt E. (ed.) (1996). Language Status in the Post-Cold-War Era. Lanham: University Press of America. Papers from the Conferences on Language and Communication, New York.
Pool, Jonathan (1991). The official language problem. American Political Science Review, 85 (2). Proves mathematically that a language policy can be both efficient and fair.
Pool, Jonathan (1991). The world language problem. Rationality and Society, 2, 78-105. Mathematically models viability of a world language.
Interlinguistics and Education
Fantini, Alvino E. and Timothy G. Reagan (1993). Esperanto and Education: Toward a Research Agenda. Washington: Esperantic Studies Foundation.
Fettes, Mark (1997). Esperanto and language awareness. In L. van Lier and D. Corson (eds.), Knowledge about Language. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 6, 151-159. Boston: Kluwer Academic.
Frank, Helmar (1993). Kybernetische Pädagogik / Klerigkibernetiko. Bratislava/San Marino: Esprima/AIEP.
Maxwell, Dan (1988). On the acquisition of Esperanto. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 10, 51-61.
Piron, Claude (1986). L’espéranto vu sous l’angle psychopédagogique. Éducation et Recherche 8 (1), 11-41.
Esperanto Studies
Corsetti, Renato (1996). A mother tongue spoken mainly by fathers. Language Problems and Language Planning 20, 263-273.
Duc Goninaz, Michel (ed.) (1987). Studies on the International Language. Gent: AIMAV. Articles on phonology, sociology, etc. in English, French and German.
Fettes, Mark (1996). The Esperanto community: A quasi-ethnic linguistic minority? Language Problems and Language Planning 20, 53-59.
Fiedler, Sabine (1999). Plansprache und Phraseologie: Empirische Untersuchungen zu reproduziertem Sprachmaterial im Esperanto. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang. 444 p. ISBN 3-631-34088-5.
Forster, Peter G (1982). The Esperanto movement. The Hague: Mouton. Historical and sociological analysis, using survey of British members.
Gledhill, Christopher (1998): The Grammar of Esperanto. A corpus-based description. München/Newcastle: Lincom Europa. 100 p. ISBN 3-89586-217-7.
Janton, Pierre (1991). Esperanto: language, literature, movement (ed. and trans. Humphrey Tonkin et al.). Albany: SUNY Press. Competent survey with a valuable bibliography.
Jordan, David K (1987). Esperanto and Esperantism: symbols and motivations in a movement for linguistic equality. Language Problems & Language Planning, 11, 104-25.
Jordan, David (1992). Being Colloquial in Esperanto: A Reference Guide For Americans. Lanham: University Press of America.
Juliá, Pere (1989). Linguistic theory and international communication. Language Problems and Language Planning, 13, 9-23.
Lieberman, E. James (1979). Esperanto and transnational identity: the case of Dr. Zamenhof. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 20, 89-107. Psychobiographical and psychosocial essay.
Lins, Ulrich (1988). Die gefährliche Sprache. Gerlingen, Germany: Bleicher. [Also exists in Italian and Esperanto]. Persecution of Esperanto and its speakers in Nazi Germany, Stalinist USSR, China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
Noltenius, Rainer, et al (1993). IIlustrierte Geschichte der Arbeiter-Esperanto-Bewegung. Dortmund: Fritz-Hüser-Institut.
Piron, Claude (1994): Le défi des langues: Du gâchis au bon sens. Paris: L’Harmattan. Critique of present language order and engaging plea for Esperanto.
Richmond, Ian M. (ed.) (1993). Aspects of Internationalism: Language and Culture. Lanham: University Press of America. Articles on Esperanto literature, translation, research, etc.
Schubert, Klaus (1993). Semantic compositionality: Esperanto word formation for language technology. Linguistics 31, 311-365.
Tonkin, Humphrey (1993. Esperanto poetry. In Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan (eds.). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 381-382.
Versteegh, Kees (1993). Esperanto as a first language: language acquisition with a restricted input. Linguistics 31, 539-555.
Wells, John (1987). Linguistische Aspekte der Plansprache Esperanto (trans. Günther Becker). Saarbrücken: Saarländischer Esperanto-Bund. [Also exists in Esperanto.] Phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicography, semantics.
Wood, Richard E (1979). A voluntary, non-ethnic, non-territorial speech community. In W.F. Mackey and Jacob Ornstein (eds.), Sociolinguistic Studies in Language Contact, 433-450. The Hague: Mouton.
Verloren van Themaat, Willem A (1989). Esperanto literature and its reception outside the Esperanto movement. Babel, 35, 21-39.