Re: Greenberg's universals
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 9, 2000, 18:27 |
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In a message dated 2000:09:09 9:31:07 AM, smithma@UCLA.EDU writes:
>Go to your local university library and look him up (Joseph H. Greenberg).
> It
>would be even easier and probably better in general just to skip his stuff
>and
>go for more recent work. "Language Universals & Linguistic Typology" by
>Bernard Comire is very good. The drawback to it (IMHO) is that it only
>deals
>with grammar. William Croft's book "Typology and Universals" deals with
>almost
>every aspect of language (phonology, grammar, semantics, diachrony, etc.).
> An
>excellent book - I highly recommend it.
>
As others have, I HIGHLY recommend Thomas E. Payne's _Describing
Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists_. I just got me copy this week &
the bloomin' bookspine is already cracking...
It is a truly invaluable ConLang resource. Lotsa juicy language samples -
lots from non-Indo-European languages. (Only drawback IMHO hardly nothing on
pidgins and creoles in this book! but ohwell...)
It is beautifully organized & designed as well ... making its use
thoroughly enjoyable.
czHANg