Ling 101 resources (was: A few questions about linguistics...)

On amazon.com you can often find used textbooks for very cheap,
especially if you don't care that much about the condition it's in.

I'll also recommend Steven Pinker's /The Language Instinct: How the
Mind Creates Language/, which gives some quite good background in
addition to all the theoretical language-organ stuff. You do have to
watch out for where Pinker is putting his theories into the background
information, but it's very readable and should be much cheaper than a
textbook.

Wikipedia, Language Log, and L&L Museum on the ZBB are also good
things to check out.

-Kelly

On 7/31/07, John Crowe <johnxcrowe@...> wrote:
> I am relatively new to conlanging and often don't know what anyone is
> talking about here. Rather than buy an expensive textbook, can someone
> direct me to a good website tutorial or introduction to linguistics.
> Unfortunately, most searches give me a bunch university websites, which, of
> course usually only have the homework assignments on them.
>