Re: tender age
| From: | Dan Jones <dan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 17, 2001, 15:35 |
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Dirk Elzinga wrote:
> >Speaking of interesting textbooks, Campbell's "Historical Linguistics- An
> >Introduction" (Edinborough Univarsity Press, 1998) is a good book,
although
> >he does emphasise the Mayan languages a bit.
>
> Which is a nice change of pace from the umpteen texts which use
Indo-European.
Very true, a fresh perspective is great. However, he completely ignored
Proto-Semitic and Proto-Sino-Tibetan and used PIE, Proto-Mayan and
Proto-Finno-Ugric as his examples. Not only that, I do find the explanations
easier to follow when the examples are from the Indo-European family.
Tedious and repetitive, yes, but easy to follow.
Dan
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La plus belle fois qu'on m'a dit
"je t'aime"
c'était un mec
qui me l'a dit...
Francis Lalane
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