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Re: Obscure languages

From:joe <josephhill@...>
Date:Sunday, September 30, 2001, 14:23
> > On Saturday 29 September 2001 21:32, you wrote: > > Quoting joe <josephhill@...>: > > > > It is especially helpful to look in used bookstores near said > > > > universities. *remebering one such delight near UNT* Foolish
students
> > > > tend to dump textbooks after finishing their courses. > > > > > > I live in Oxfordshire (England) but I can't really take a course,
being
> > > only 13, and having school, do you think Oxford U will do any of these > > > courses? > > > > Almost certainly. After a quick perusal of Oxford's > > website, I couldn't find any online listing of courses > > taught, but I have no doubt that there are resources > > for a wide variety of languages there. I don't know > > what kinds of requirements they have to take courses, > > but Oxford's libraries are world-famous (especially the > > Bodleian library), so I would take advantage of them > > if you can. (They may be closed to the public; UChicago's > > Regenstein library is, but I don't know what Oxford's > > policies are.) > > > > You need to get a reader's card, which you only get when you > have some kind of a recommendation. But there'll no doubt be > linguistics professors who rather want to stimulate an early > interest in obscure languages, and are willing to talk to a 13-year > old who has heard of Yugh. > > In Leyden, which probably has even more grammars of obscure languages, > the same principle holds, but you can also buy a reader's card, perhaps > that's possible in Oxford, too. > >
Yes, but it's not that easy for a 13 year old to get to see a linguistics professor, is it?

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Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...>
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