Re: "Writing Transformational Grammars" Book

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 > Date:    Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:33:44 -0600 From:    Caleb Hines
 > <cph9fa@...> Subject: "Writing Transformational
 > Grammars" Book
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 > Anybody familiar with the book "Writing Transformational Grammars: an
 >  Introduction." by Andreas Koutsoudas? I picked it up at the library
 > the other day and have started looking at it. Apparently there are a
 > bunch of excercises where they give you a list of sentences in some
 > foreign language, along with translations. Your task is to discover
 > the component morphemes and develop a Transformational Grammar based
 > on those sentences (and some statements about what is not
 > grammatical). Sounds sort of like conlanging in reverse!
 >
 > If anyone's interested I could post one or two of the excersises.
 >
 > Thanks, ~Caleb
 >

Well, I'd be interested in seeing at least one or two, if you'd like to
put them up.  And, if no one else is interested, you can send one right
to me, if you don't mind taking the trouble.

Thanks!
Jim

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