Anything from Guy Deutscher is good on W&L. I was also immensely fond of Steven Pinker's "Words and Rules" which draws some remarkably amusing lessons from a ridiculously deep dive on a small number of English irregular verbs. -T
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > If someone gives me 43 references....oh, dear, I wind up looking at NONE of > them. :( > > I had an excellent book on etymology for both my undergrad and post-grad > studies, here's the wiki about the author: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Jespersen > > The language has evolved so very rapidly since the days of my University > studies that it's even more fascinating than before! > > Can anyone tell me if there are equally good studies on languages like > Hindi, or Tamizh,please? Udhay, can you ask your Erudite Uncle? > > > > >
