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Re:Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field ... by triyambakam on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:45PM (#30823948)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field ... by estaseuropano on Sunday March 27, 2022 @05:59PM (#30824590)
"don't sleep there are snakes" - half an adventure book, half linguistic analysis and explanation of a fairly unique language.
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Re:Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field ... by stuxnet79 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @05:18PM (#30824257)
Very 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.
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Re:Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field ... by tikwidd on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:53AM (#30828592)
Why 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.
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Re:Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field ... by westoncb on Sunday March 27, 2022 @07:55PM (#30825380)
For general linguistics I've enjoyed a couple small books by Frank Palmer: "Grammar" and "Semantics".
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