Re: Reference Grammars (was: Doraja)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 28, 2000, 9:32 |
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At 23:51 27.4.2000 -0700, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> > >Also there is _Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar_ by
> > >Li & Thompson, which was my explicit model.
> >
> > Another good one.
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>If you're unfamiliar with it, _Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar_ by
>Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip is also excellent, done very much in the
>Li & Thompson style with frequent references to it, in fact (often to point
>out how the two dialects differ).
What about setting up a format & guidelines for on-line ref grammars and
get down to it? I daresay the people on this list represent an awesome
collective competence!
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson
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mailto:melroch@my-deja.com
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