Re: Vampire dialogue again

Matt:
> Well, I think I've come up with an analysis of Prof. Fromkin's
> vampire dialogue that I can live with.
[...]
> Well, that's about it.  Comments welcome!
I haven't seen the film, but if the scenario is the usual one, in
which people bitten by vampires become vampires, and if the
vampire language is one that your average vampire speaks,
then unless becoming a vampire involves a radical restructuring
of neural architecture, you'd expect the language to show
extreme pidginization (because it's spoken entirely by L2
speakers) along with many influences from L1s. I don't know
how plausible your sketch would be, in the light of that, but
suppletions such as _tat/ochach_ seem unlikely.

This issue aside, I thought you did a truly ace job.

--And.