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Re: CHAT: _Describing Morphosyntax_

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, August 26, 2004, 18:53
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. -- "But the next day there came no dawn, John Cowan and the Grey Company passed on into the jcowan@reutershealth.com darkness of the Storm of Mordor and were http://www.ccil.org/~cowan lost to mortal sight; but the Dead http://reutershealth.com followed them. --"The Passing of the Grey Company"