The Benefits of Reading Linguistic Papers

Mike: There are a few possible motivations of benefits that you can get from reading linguistic papers as a con-liner in the show notes I put a list and I put a little thing mentioning that I realized most of these are applied to why won't research or read linguistic papers. Looking at these papers gives you many opportunities to learn about lots of different languages you may never have heard it right there are some six thousand in the world ish and most of us have no opportunity to encounter most of them but we can learn a little bit about them in the papers. Mike: This love of languages actual languages and not theories about language provides the fundamental basis for certainly our style of conlanging yeah