The foreword, written by Mary Connell Bray, briefly recounts the history of interlinguistics and IALA . The Introduction, written by Gode, explains the theory and principles of Interlingua and explores in depth the derivation procedures used to obtain a widely international vocabulary.
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In its early years, IALA concerned itself with three tasks : finding other organizations around the world with similar goals; building a library of books about languages and interlinguistics; and comparing extant IALs, including Esperanto, Esperanto II, Interlingue ( Occidental ).
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He is an Esperantolog, member of " Gesellschaft f�r Interlinguistik " ( GIL ) ( Society for Interlinguistics ) and of the scientists'staff of " Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino " ( AIS ) as well as lector for mathematics of the international " Scienca Revuo ".