Re: Books for conlangers
| From: | Thomas Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 6:09 |
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From: "Julia \"Schnecki\" Simon" <helicula@...>
> Ah, the Mithun book. :-D I used to recommend stacks of specific
> grammars to people -- "read this Georgian grammar to learn about
> ergative,
Nitpick: you won't learn much about ergative languages from
Georgian. It has a case that in western languages is called
"ergative", but that's a misnomer, since there is a class of
intransitives that also takes that same case ending.
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