Re: Conlang books collection on Amazon

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:29:29AM -0800, Sai Emrys wrote:

> Yeah. Personally I find that widget quite kludgy; I'd prefer something
> like the Zazzle widget, which is pretty good.
>
> But this is one of those "suggestions appreciated" points - I only
> marginally know how to work with Amazon Associate widgets, and of the
> limited selection available, that seemed the best.
*shrug*  If it were my personal site, I wouldn't use a widget at all,
just a link.  But that would be out of character with the rest of the
page, which is after all somewhat promotional and meant to draw people
in, so I see why you're doing it.  (I have to force myself to look at
the widgets, though, whereas I automatically read plain text.  Moving
objects inside a border == advertising, avert eyes! :)

Your list is, not surprisingly, very heavy on the cognitive semantics.
Without going upstairs to check, I can think of a few syntax books I
have that you are missing (though I haven't checked that they're in
print):

	- "Ergativity"
	- the "Language Typology and Syntactic Description" series (heh,
I found the name by viewing *my* Amazon Media Library in oldest-first
acquisition order; Volume II is the 11th thing I ever bought from them!)
	- Comrie's Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax
and Morphology
	- I really think Mithun's The Languages of Native North America
is not too specific for this list, and probably similar books re: Australian
and South American languages.
	- If you have Klingon and Laadan, how about A Gateway to Sindarin?

Well, that's a start.  It still looks like they will be drowning in a
sea of cognitive semantics :)

Amanda

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