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Re: CHAT: _Describing Morphosyntax_

From:Mark P. Line <mark@...>
Date:Thursday, August 26, 2004, 21:39
Carsten Becker said:
> > Now that I have Payne's _Describing Morphosyntax_, what is so > recommendable about it and why is it so helpful for the conlanger? I had a > quick look into that book and there are explanations of lots of terms with > plenty of examples how other languages manage this. Do you refer to *that* > when recommending it? Well, then of course it's useful indeed.
Not so much the terms themselves as the phenomena being described by those terms, and especially the "ecology" of those phenomena within a single language. You can think of the book as a decision tree for conlang design. (Although more branches and quite a few leaves could be added, it's still a very good place to start.)
> Carsten > ... who is now 18 y/o
Congrats! -- Mark