Re: more book advice
| From: | Paul Bennett <spacey@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 3, 2000, 1:41 |
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On 2 Jun 00, at 18:16, Danny Wier wrote:
> There is one book that's the virtual bible for general linguistics I and
> other recommend above all else: _The World's Major Languages_, ed. Bernard
> Comrie. The Big Green Book I call it.
Would that be a complete unabridged collocation of Comries "The Major
Languages of ..." books? If so, it must surely weigh more than a small
solar system!
The individual books are DAMN FINE! (imnsho), certainly "... Western
Europe" is jam-packed full o' langy goodness.
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Pb