> CONLANG List wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
> Well, that makes two! I'd also be interested in a
> couple of the exercises if you don't mind. They sound
> like they'd be fun puzzles, and I'd probably learn all
> sorts of nifty linguistics stuff at the same time. :)
> ---Etak
>
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