Re: "Writing Transformational Grammars" Book

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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