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Re: Looking for a good grammar

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Thursday, January 8, 2004, 6:24
--- Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
> E f+AOk-sto Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>: > > Request number one: What's a good general book on > > grammar that would be comprehsensible to the > > non-specialist.
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> 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.
Thanks! I rushed right over to Amazon to order it and discovered, oddly enough, that I had already put that very book in my wish list at some time in the past. So I put it on order immediately. What about this one: Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology by Bernard Comrie --gary