From seidensticker@msn.com Sun Mar 25 08:36:49 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: seidensticker@msn.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 25 Mar 2001 16:36:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 19321 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2001 16:36:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2001 16:36:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO c9.egroups.com) (10.1.2.66) by mta1 with SMTP; 25 Mar 2001 16:36:39 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: seidensticker@msn.com Received: from [10.1.2.28] by c9.egroups.com with NNFMP; 25 Mar 2001 16:36:39 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:36:38 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Linguistics study Message-ID: <99l6qm+g70l@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 432 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 206.129.86.130 From: seidensticker@msn.com 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. Amazon.com lists 13,000 books in the "linguistics" category, which doesn't help much. Thanks! Bob Seidensticker