Re: THEORY: Required Reading?
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 31, 2007, 16:13 |
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On Thu, 31 May 2007 09:35:46 -0400, Douglas Treadwell
<epicureanideal@...> wrote:
> Are there any books you would recommend as a sort of "required reading
> list" to be adequately informed on the subject?
> Are there any particularly good books on alphabets, grammars, language
> in general?
My personal "required reading list".
Comrie, _Language Universals and Linguistic Typology_
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0226114333
Payne, _Describing Morphosyntax_
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0521588057
Trask, _A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics_
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0415086280
Daniels & Bright, _The World's Writing Systems_
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0195079930
Comrie, _The World's Major Languages_
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0195065115
_The Handbook of the IPA_
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0521637511
The rewriting system used on this list to represent the IPA in plain text
is at:
http://www.theiling.de/ipa/
The _Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics_ series tend to be decent
walk-throughs of specific subjects.
Pick out a few random languages, and get reference grammars for them.
Wikipedia is fairly regularly useful, too.
Paul
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