Re: book recommendations...

>    From: Mario Bonassin <zebuleon@...>
>Subject: Re: book recommendations...
>
I checked the book out of Robarts library in Toronto and found it enormously
helpful. I now can list Lahabic as almost standard for a VA language, except
for the use of suffixes as well as prefixes (oh well -the Islanders aren't
human anyway).
>I picked up the book also and it is an incredible help.  As this is just a
>hobby
>for me this book is very easy to read without feeling like a text book.  He
>wrote
>it, i believe, with the idea that not everyone that would use it was a
>schooled
>linguist which is perfect for this kind of hobby.
>
>Mario
>
>Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > ...by more experienced conlangers rock!
> >
> > I saw _Describing Morphosyntax_ in the Campus Store and picked it up for
> > $15 less.  <purr>  It's insanely good.  If they'd explained grammar like
> > this in the one abortive 8th grade English grammar unit, I'd've
>*enjoyed* it!
> >
> > YHL, delighted...and also reading an intro to phonology, because there's
> > *so much* she doesn't know
>
>
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