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Re: Looking for a good grammar

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Thursday, January 8, 2004, 4:56
E fésto Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
> Request number one: What's a good general book on > grammar that would be comprehsensible to the > non-specialist. But I don't want a book on how to > write better, but one about the theory or study of > grammar in general. > > When I look up "grammar" on Amazon I get things like > the 1001 most common writing errors, and how to write > better science fiction, and blah, blah. blah. > > Somebody please give me a title or two?
If you havnt looked into _Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists_ by Thomas E. Payne yet, this is probably the best point at which to do so. At base the book is a guide to writing grammatical descriptions of lesser-known languages, and as such, gives many details, examples, and definitions of grammatical phenomena that occur in natural languages. *Muke! -- http://frath.net/ E jer savne zarjé mas ne http://kohath.livejournal.com/ Se imné koone'f metha http://kohath.deviantart.com/ Brissve mé kolé adâ.

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