Re: OT: Good Books?
| From: | Apollo Hogan <apollo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 6, 2004, 21:04 |
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Doug Dee wrote:
> In a message dated 3/5/2004 8:10:01 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> ryumaou@SBCGLOBAL.NET writes:
>
> >While I've heard the _Morphosyntax_ book recommended before, frankly,
> >just the *name* intimidates me still.
>
> Just pretend the title is _Describing Grammar_ or _Describing A Language
> (except for the phonology)_
>
> Some of my other favorite books are in a series from Cambridge U. Press that
> includes:
>
> _Gender_ by Greville Corbett
> _Number_ by Greville Corbett
> _Tense_ by Berbard Comrie
> _Aspect_ by Bernard Comrie
> _Case_ by Barry Blake
> _Definiteness_ by Christopher Lyons
> _Ergativity_ by RMW Dixon
I would also recommend the recent book
_Classifiers:_A_Typology_of_Noun_Categorization_Devices_
by Alexandra Aikhenvald, if you're interested in a language device used
in many non-European languages.
Another interesting (but more specialized) book is
_Typological_Studies_in_Negation, ed. Peter Kahrel and Rene Van Den Berg.
It is a collection of papers that describe in detail the strategies various
languages use for different kinds of negation. There is a wide variety of
languages covered.
--Apollo Hogan