Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 27, 2003, 15:33 |
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--- 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).
Jan
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