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Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, March 28, 2003, 8:05
Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

> --- Adam Walker skrzypszy: > > > Where is this survey. I'm always open to extrania. > > It is not really a survey, Adam. Like many interesting threads about the > person > behind the computer, it came up rather spontaneously, IIRC in the thread > called > "Second report on Koní", before it got its current header. Also look for > a > side-thread called "Bouncing". > > If you have missed it, check the archives: > http://listserv.brown.edu/archive/conlang.html > > The matter arose basically from Daniel's joking hypothesis that there > might be > a connection between people's body length and weight, their liking or > disliking > for bouncing around, and their linguistic preferences (accusativity > vs. > ergativity, VSO vs. SVO, and the like).
Do I spot the Andreas Johansson vs Daniel Andreasson confusion again? It was, incidentally, me that made the suggestion. +Andreas -Daniel