Re: more book advice

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, nicole perrin wrote:

> Hello all.  Since summer is coming up (read:  since my free time will
> soon grow exponentially), and since I have a lil extra money, I've been
> thinking to reward myself with a New Non-Fiction (read:  expensive)
> Book.  I think I want to get something on Indo-European linguistics,
> either that or an introduction to some other language family.  So, does
> anyone have any recommendations?  (When I say "other language family," I
> really do mean just about anything, be it Asian, African or Native
> American.  I just want to read about something new to me, and
> interesting.)
>
For Indo-European linguistics you could do worse than buy RSP Beekes
introductory text - it really is quite comprehensive and scholarly.
And it's not too expensive, so you might have money left for Zhang's
suggestions ;-).

On the other hand, if you really want to spend money on something really
thorough, take a peek at Cambridge's Language survey series - the volumes
on Pidgins and Creoles, Chinese and the languages of Japan are good -
others might be good, too. Indo-Aryan languages is for hard-core linguists
specially interested in the languages of the Indian subcontinent only.
But these volumes are not too expensive, either.

Or, if you want an excellent grammar of a single language, you might get
Rutger's grammar of Yamphu. If you feel very, very flush, try one of the
grammars from Mouton - Dumi is nice - costs approx $201,00 according to
their website. (I got mine from the author...)

Anyway, take a look at: http://www.valdyas.org/conlang/references.html
for a few book reviews.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org