21.4890, Qs: Textbook Recommendations: Typology and Universals

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Subject: 21.4890, Qs: Textbook Recommendations: Typology and Universals

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Date: 03-Dec-2010
From: Nigel Duffield [n.g.duffield at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: Textbook Recommendations: Typology and Universals
 

	
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Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:00:23
From: Nigel Duffield [n.g.duffield at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: Textbook Recommendations: Typology and Universals

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Next Spring, I will be teaching a one-semester (2 hours per week) 
course on Language Universals and Language Typology, and am 
looking for a good text book. I had wanted to use Comrie (1989, 2nd 
Edition) but this now appears to be out of print. Does anyone have any 
good recommendations? The constraints are that I'm teaching a 
relatively low-level class of Japanese sophomore students, who will 
only have taken Intro, and perhaps a basic syntax class, and whose 
English will allow a maximum of, say, 15-20 pages a week. The work 
should be accessible, relatively light, and as theoretically neutral as 
possible. 

Please mail me any suggestions, and I will summarize. 

Thank you,
Nigel Duffield 

Linguistic Field(s): Typology




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