Re: more book advice

On 4 Jun 00, at 21:17, Robert Hailman wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> I don't know, I only have it out from the library, for my conlang Ajuk,
> which is also a school project. It's about 1000 pages, chock full of
> linguistic goodness.
In that case, it ain't what I hoped it might be.  ISTR each individual
volume of "The Major ..." has maybe 5 or 600 pages (or thereabouts) and
there are quite a few volumes.

(at least that's my shaky memory of 'em, it's been a few years)

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