Re: Reference material
- From: "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:18:07 -0400
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:27:40 GMT, Michelle Bottorff
<mbottorff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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rec.arts.sf.composition:
[...]
Other than that the reference book I use most often is
called "The Loom of Language". It is a book on
linguistics that has a basic vocabulary in eight
languages in it, all charted out so that you can see the
similarities/differences between four germanic languages
and then again between four romantic ones.
Ow. Ow. To quote a linguist acquaintance, 'that one's
utter crap'. If you're going to keep a single book on
linguistics handy, make it David Crystal's Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Language, which, despite the name, is very
readable and not at all a stuffy academic tome.
As long as I'm listing, here are some good books on
linguistics for the intelligent layman:
Crystal's Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language,
which is similar in format to the volume mentioned above.
Ronald Macaulay, _The Social Art_, OUP, 1994; language from
the point of view of a sociolinguist. (And a very nice
fellow; the one formal linguistics course that I ever took
was from him back in the late 60s.)
Guy Deutscher, _The Unfolding of Language_, Metropolitan
Books, 2005; language from the point of view of a historical
linguist.
[...]
Brian
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