Re: grumbles

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, James Campbell wrote:

> Barry Garcia:
>
> > oh i know what you mean. I went on a search for info about Frisian and
> > didnt find anything but the Lowlands list directory for offline resources.
>
> There's precious little around that I could find. The dead-tree info I have
> (which is all I have on modern Frisian) amounts to:
>
> A Dutch-[West] Frisian dictionary, published by AFûK, I think.
> A quaint little pamphlet entitled "Notes on Frisian", which includes some
> guessed-at grammar (all I could find).
> A multilingual dictionary, "Snaak Friisk!", with English, Danish, German and
> 5 varieties of Frisian.
>
> There are other more worthy tomes, I'm sure, but my Dutch is not that good
> that I could cope with a 20-volume Dutch-Frisian dictionary.
There is a reference grammar written by Pieter Meijes Tiersma
that was published by Foris in 1985, I believe. It's in my
office (and I'm not), so I can't give you an ISBN. It's really
more of a sketch than a fully fleshed-out reference grammar, but
it does provide some useful information. You might also look at
Tiersma's dissertation on the lexicon in generative phonology
(which is also the title, I believe); lots of stuff on Frisian
there as well (especially breaking).

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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