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Re: Good starting Linguistics books/ pages

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Thursday, October 26, 2000, 5:38
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Daniel Sauve wrote:

> New at this. I want to learn, as I'm currently developing languages for the > three alien races in contact with Earth in a shared fiction universe. I do know > the Etherians (elves) have a sound somewhere between the Chinese (Manderian and > other dilects) and the Six Nations people. >
There's a page with a lot of books and small descriptions at: http://www.valdyas.org/conlang/references/html. If you're an absolute beginner, I'd say, start with Describing Language by David Graddol, Jenni Cheshire and Joan Swann, Open University Press. Not as expensive as full-blown scholarly texts, either.
> A bit about myself. I'm Daniel Sauve, and I'm a francaphone who's isolated from > french due to living among the English Canadians for most of my life. As soon as > I find a free way to submerge myself in Canadian French, I will learn it. > Currently, English is my only fluent language. I am a writer, and for money I > wash dishes. :) >
Welcome! Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org