Re: a new person on the list

Hi,

I looked and the books you suggested and the links suggested here. Like
Taliesin said, the one from Daniels & Bright is expensive (Amazon wants 180
Euros for the book). I'll go with the other ones and see about the last one
in time. :-)
One thing: the link to the page sil.org seems broken. At least I can't reach
the server any more.

Thanks again,
Eduard

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] Im
> Auftrag von Paul Bennett
> Gesendet: Samstag, 27. August 2005 23:49
> An: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Betreff: Re: a new person on the list
>
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:02:14 -0400, Eduard Ralph <conlang@...>
> wrote:
>
> > I've been lurking on this list for the past 2-3 weeks and thought it
> > time to
> > introduce myself shortly. My interest in conlanging stems from my
> > bilingual
> > upbringing and the interest in writing a fantasy book. Of course I want
> > it
> > to be as full of life as can be. Working in the IT field, I have to work
> > with very simple con languages every day. I was surprised how much
> > programming and writing have in common. I'll admit that I don't have
> much
> > linguistic background and as such I'm still fighting with some of the
> > terminology used on this list, so I hope you'll bear with me if I ask
> > questions which seem simple.
>
> Welcome!
>
> Here are a few books you ought to consider buying:
>
> A Dictionary Of Grammatical Terms In Linguistics, Trask
> Language Universals And Linguistic Typology, Comrie
> Describing Morphosyntax, Payne
> The World's Writing Systems, Daniels & Bright
>
> Those four provide what I think of as the core canon of what's possible
> and what's likely within human language, as well as describing in great
> detail the terminology you're likely to find on this list, and should form
> part of the bookshelf of any conlanger. They can be quite dry, and heavy
> going, especially Comrie, but the payoff is well worth it.
>
> In the meantime, SIL maintain a glossary of linguistics terms that should
> help unmuddy the waters somewhat:
>
> http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryoflinguisticterms/index.htm
>
> You also ought to become familiar with the IPA (International Phonetic
> Alphabet) and CXS, which is how we represent the IPA in ASCII.
>
> For an overview of CXS, see http://www.theiling.de/ipa/
>
> Also of use are the Leipzig glossing rules, useful in presenting
> line-by-line, word-by-word translations of texts:
>
> http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/files/morpheme.html
>
>
>
>
> Paul

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