From lojbab@lojban.org Mon Mar 26 09:11:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 26 Mar 2001 17:11:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 99658 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2001 17:11:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2001 17:11:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta2 with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 17:11:20 -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 f2QHBJb58519 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:11:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010326121338.00b139b0@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 12:14:46 -0500 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Linguistics study In-Reply-To: References: <99l6qm+g70l@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 09:12 PM 03/25/2001 +0100, And Rosta wrote: >To people who know nothing about Linguistics & want to get a sense >of what the field covers, I usually recommend David Crystal's >_Cambridge Encylopedia of Language_ (not _... of the English >Language_, tho this too is very good). I'll second that one, which I should have listed first before my Comrie suggestions. That and the two Comrie books were probably my first real introduction to linguistics. 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