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Re: (1) I'm Back!!! (2) Thank You All!! (3) I Need Your Help!

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, April 11, 2003, 20:08
Jeffrey Henning scripsit:
> David J. Peterson comunu: > > >1.) Are there any books we could use? I can think of parts of many > books that'd be helpful to photocopy, but there's no real conlang > textbook (yet). > > > I would recommend assembling The Virtual Conlang Textbook, which would > be a table of contents with virtual chapters, where the chapters were > links to good web articles. Many of the authors would probably consent > to have their sites printed and bound in a textbook for a single > classroom (but you'd need to contact each to ask).
I agree with this, but I would mention _Describing Morphosyntax_ as important, and that is a physical-only book. -- [W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little John Cowan febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot jcowan@reutershealth.com that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith www.ccil.org/~cowan in the benignancy of vegetables. --And Rosta www.reutershealth.com