Larry Beason's request is timely for me because I was about to work on
making the bibliography on the ATEG website more comprehensive and
up-to-date.  So suggestions and comments would be useful.

I'm not sure these are the best works for what this grad student is looking
for, but David Crystal's two one-volume encyclopedias, The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Language, and ... of the English Language, are very
competent surveys--well-written, comprehensive, lots of interesting
sidebars, and reasonably priced in their paperback editions.  Teachers and
students at different levels can find a lot here.

Brock Haussamen

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Beason [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:29 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: reference books?


A grad student who plans to teach college composition but also wants to
study linguistics has asked me for suggested reference books for grammarians
or aspiring linguists--not grammar handbooks or scholarship per se, but
solid books on language, especially the English language.

I have my picks, but I'm interested in what other people on the list
consider the best reference texts now available.

I know this is a broad quesiton and it depends on each person's individual
interests, needs, etc etc etc.  But I think it would be good to see what
other people recommend.  (The literature folks always have these interesting
debates on the 'best' novels.  Why can't we play too!)

--larry beason



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Larry Beason
Director of Composition
Dept. of English, Univ. of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
334-460-7861
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