Re: syntax book recommendations?

on 2/23/08 11:22 PM, Rick Harrison at rick@HARRISON.NET wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:08:35 -0800, Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...>
> wrote:
>
>> _Word Order Universals_ by John A. Hawkins (1983: Academic Press, New York)
>> has a wealth of idea generatin' tidbits and references.
>
> Thanks for the pointer. Must be a great book, all the copies I could find on
> the 'net are
> selling for more than $100. I will have to see if any libraries in the area
> have it.
I got mine when I was scouting out rare and outta-print books (one of my
lines of work).

Got it for an unbelievable $ 20 US >:)
from an estate sale (evidentally it was a estate of an undergraduate
professor of world literature).

"Chance favours the prepared mind." *snickersnarlfle*


--

Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no sensei_ [Master of junk]

    "To live is to scrounge, taking what you can in order to survive. So,
since living is scrounging, the result of our efforts is to amass a pile
of rubbish."
                            - Chuang Tzu/Zhuangzi, China, 4th Century BCE


    "The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random."
                            - Heraclitus, Greece, 5th Century BCE


    Ars imitatur Naturam in sua operatione.
    [Latin > "Art is the imitation of Nature in her manner of operation."]


    " jinsei to iu mono wa, kinchou na geijyutsu to ieru deshou "
    [Japanese > "one can probably say that 'life' is a precious artform"]


    Absolument n'import quoi est art.

Der Abfall der Welt dient¹Mir zur Kunst.
³The waste of the world becomes my art.²
~ ­ Kurt Schwitters, circa 1935,
inscribed on the back of a collage titled Fur Bieleny

    "Art should be something that liberates your soul." - Keith Haring