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.
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