Re: [tied] Worth purchasing?

Me:

> > I've got an opportunity to purchase "The Laws of Indo-European" by N.E.
> > Collinge and I'd like to ask if it's worth buying at all

Peter:

> Yes, I bought a copy a few years back. It's a fascinating book, giving

all

> the details of the arguments back and forth about the various laws.
> Essential if you want to explore IE in depth. One frustration is that it
> gives so much information, that sometimes it isn't entirely clear what the
> law actually says. But then there are so many versions of some of them!

It

> uses the notation I first met in Transformational Grammar
> ([+voice -aspiration] etc). If you can cope with that notation, I'd
> recommend you go for it.

Thank you, Peter.