Re: The Pronunciation of {hsara}

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, iisem :P wrote:

>
> also, i've heard of a book "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language"  to whom
> is that book geared towards?  the more learne'd of the layman?  (sincere
> appologies for my English)
>
It's a reasonable book for the layman - won't give you a real good
grounding, though, for that you perhaps have to start with one of
the numerous introductions to language and linguistics. Bloomfield's
Language and Lyon's Theoretical Linguistics are getting a bit long in
the tooth, but Bollinger's Aspects of Language is still a reasonable
choice. I once even came across A Teach Yourself Linguistics book ;-).
Oh, and Describing Language... by Graddol et al is very usable, too:
published by the Open University Press - I guess that that's the best
book for the beginning conlanger.

But by all means buy the Encyclopeadia, you will never regret it.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt