On linguistic economics
Abstract
The author has divided his study on linguistic economics into two parts, of which this article is the first. In it he points out that, if language is fundamentally a tool for communication, it should necessarily provide a specific convenience to its user, as does any other tool. If this is the case, it is essential that the language adapt to the criterion of linguistic economics, which the author suggests is an oblique criterion in the writing of texts in Basque and, through numerous examples from Basque and other languages, he offers a vision of the primary problems that may arise.
