Re: [tied] Reading list.

I'd recomment Campbell or Trask to beginners (not because they give only elementary stuff, but because they procede smoothly and didactically from easy to difficult topics), Hock to students who need an encyclopaedic treatment, with all the important information neatly organised and labelled, and Anttila and (especially) Lass to conoisseurs who enjoy digressions, philosophical speculation and interdisciplinary approaches.

Piotr

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From: Marc Verhaegen

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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:47 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Reading list.

Anttila, Raimo. 1989. _Historical and Comparative Linguistics_. Amsterdam & New York: Benjamins.

Campbell, Lyle. 1998. _Historical Linguistics: An Introduction_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hock, Hans Heinrich. 1986. _Principles of Historical Linguistics_. Berlin, New York & Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter.

Lass, Roger. 1997. _Historical Linguistics and Language Change_. Cambridge: CUP.

Trask, R.L., 1996. _Historical Linguistics_. London: Arnold.

One ought to read at least one of them, if not all.

Which would you prefer, Piotr?

Marc

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