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What about a book for Linguistics? I also studied Linguistics and now while I still find the knowledge useful (getting to describe to my son a voiced vs unvoice
by triyambakam 5y ago
What about a book for Linguistics? I also studied Linguistics and now while I still find the knowledge useful (getting to describe to my son a voiced vs unvoiced plosive) I am not as interested in it anymore.
- stuxnet79 5y agoVery interested in this. I'm currently learning a second language and my programmer brain keeps getting side tracked by _human language as an abstraction_ in and of itself. I'd be very interested in a basic intro to linguistics book that starts from first principles and goes through what grammar fundamentally is, syntax, morphology, etc.
- estaseuropano 5y ago"don't sleep there are snakes" - half an adventure book, half linguistic analysis and explanation of a fairly unique language.
- westoncb 5y agoFor general linguistics I've enjoyed a couple small books by Frank Palmer: "Grammar" and "Semantics".
- tikwidd 5y agoWhy Only Us: Language and Evolution by Chomsky and Berwick if you're interested in some of the deeper questions in linguistics. It's a bit heavy but aimed at a general technical audience.