Re: non-English WEB sites (was Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 25, 2003, 23:29 |
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Iain Davis wrote:
> > The only
> > published descriptive work on Chemehuevi is a short
> > grammatical sketch and lexicon by Margaret Press published by
> > the University of California Publications in Linguistics
> > series in 1980. It covers the phonology in 20 pages, syntax
> > in the next 100. The lexicon contains barely 1000 items, and
> > there are no texts. So there is still plenty of work to be done.
>
> Hmm. I wonder how difficult it would be to get a copy of that work.
It probably was out of print shortly after publicaton, after all 2-3000
copies had been sold to interested libraries and scholars. Used dealers or
interlibrary loan are about the only recourse, unless some industrious soul
has webified it.
Sometimes Univ. Presses discover a box or two of old items and put them on
sale, but that's sheer luck. An inquiry to the publisher might strike gold.
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