Re: CHAT: _Describing Morphosyntax_

Carsten Becker scripsit:

> 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.
It gives you a checklist to help you see how complete your grammar
sketch is -- after all, that's what it's for: to help people make
grammar sketches, although the author expected it to be used with
poorly documented natlangs, not conlangs, of course.

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