From lojbab@lojban.org Mon Mar 26 08:42:39 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 26 Mar 2001 16:42:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 2459 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2001 16:42:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2001 16:42:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 17:43:33 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (209-8-89-81.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.81]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2QGgSb56429 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:42:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010326114306.00b43dc0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:45:54 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Linguistics study In-Reply-To: <99l6qm+g70l@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 6211 At 04:36 PM 03/25/2001 +0000, seidensticker@msn.com wrote: >I marvel at the depth of linguistic knowledge of some of this group's >participants. Can anyone suggest some good books to give the >linguistically-challenged among us some insight into this field? I'm >thinking of a survey of world languages (not just European >languages), something popular rather than academic. They are scholarly and one is a tome, but I favor two books by Bernard Comrie The World's Major Language (A tome of a thousand pages) Language Universals and Linguistic Typology The first will give you a good survey of other languages at a level comparable with what you can read in the list, but more comprehensive in covering each language. The second is essential at grasping the diversity of languages in the world. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org