Histling-l Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4

[Anthony Grant]

Hi Claire:

I've used bits of Terry's book in some of the classes I taught, and found it very good.  My suggestions are few.   The PMP orthography in his Palauan dataset needs revising to the more Blusty orthography now used, more could be made of Ringe-style character-based work in lexicostatistics (but what a joy it is to see a chapter on the subject in a histling book in this day and age) and more could be made of the less smooth sound correspondences (I'm echoing Eric Hamp's superbb article 'On misusing similarity' here).  Things are not always as lautgesetzlich as w'd like them to be.  And of course you might want to pop a Jaminjungan example or two in the datasets.  But it's a great book.

Best

Anthony

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Today's Topics:

   1. Terry Crowley's historical text (Claire Bowern)


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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:48:53 -0500
From: Claire Bowern <bowern at rice.edu>
Subject: [Histling-l] Terry Crowley's historical text
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Dear all,
I'll be producing a new (expanded) edition of Terry Crowley's historical
linguistics textbook over the coming year. I'm interested in getting 
feedback from those who've used the book (or the reasons people didn't 
use it) and any desiderata for the new edition.
Best wishes,
Claire

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Dr Claire Bowern
Department of Linguistics
Rice University
Houston, TX




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