Re: New here

Yahya Abdal-Aziz wrote:

> Just joined, and am new at conlanging, too. :-)
>
> About a month ago, I started cooking up a new language for the fun of it,
> little realising what depths I might need to plumb ...
>
> I've had a quick browse of a few recent posts, and the enormity of my
> grammatical ignorance now appals me ...  Clearly, I'm going to have to get
> up to speed on, for one thing, several kinds of case that I haven't
> encountered previously in my linguistic travels.  Any pointers appreciated!
A little leftfield maybe, but I really, really recommend Guy Deutscher's
The Unfolding of Language[1]. I was flicking through the bookshelves
idly a few days ago when I came across it. It's one of the best layman's
introductions to language I've came across. After that, get Describing
Morphosyntax[2]. Both books together will give you exactly the start you
need.

K.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/043401155X/
[2] http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521588057/