LINGUIST List 21.4890 Sat Dec 04 2010 Qs: Textbook Recommendations: Typology and Universals Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Nigel Duffield , Textbook Recommendations: Typology and Universals Message 1: Textbook Recommendations: Typology and Universals Date: 03-Dec-2010 From: Nigel Duffield <n.g.duffieldsheffield.ac.uk> Subject: Textbook Recommendations: Typology and Universals E-mail this message to a friend 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 New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 04-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.