Re: Looking for a good grammar

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.


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