Re: Good starting Linguistics books/ pages

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