Re: Textbook choices

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, dirk elzinga wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, dirk elzinga wrote:
> >
> > > 2)  It focuses on English, and therefore makes discussion of
> > > theoretical issues *easier*, since students don't need to interpret
> > > data from "exotic" languages before the principle is uncovered.
> >
> > Does it also have examples from non-English languages?
> >
> > I like having both: examples in English so I can see what's going on with
> > a familiar language, and then examples in other languages so I can learn
> > how to apply what I've learned.  One of the things that I really disliked
> > about Macaulay's _The Social Art_ was that it focused almost exclusively
> > on English, and I wanted to know about how *other* languages worked, not
> > just English.
>
> Yes. The text itself doesn't contain many non-English examples or
> problems, but the accompanying workbook is full of exercises from
> less commonly encountered languages.
<with trepidation>  Is the workbook also expensive?

<wondering about used and probably written-in workbooks>

YHL