Re: CHAT: query: where to start?

> From: Tim Smith
> Subject: Re: query: where to start?
>
> And while I'm in book-recommending mode, I'll put in yet another plug for
> another of Comrie's books, which I've recommended many times before to
> other newcomers to this list: _Language Universals and Linguistic
> Typology_
> (University of Chicago Press, 1989, 0-226-11433-3).  If you're interested
> in cross-linguistic patterns, rather than just information about
> individual
> languages, this is a great place to start.

I would have to second that recommendation as well.  While we're at it I
would recommend the 3 vol set edited by Shopin _Language typology and
syntactic description_ and the absolute must have for all conlangers,
Payne's _Describing Morphosyntax_.

David

David E. Bell
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