Re: Introducing myself, and several questions

Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> writes:
>> ...
>> Pirahã is the name.  I could believe the story if it was set in a
>> ...
>> it is in the wrong location for that, and I am pretty sure that
>> it is a hoax.
>
> Well, yes, the stories I read are so unbelievable that it is hard to
> believe it's real.  However, there are many different sources.  If a
> hoax, it must be a huge-scale one.  If not, it's truely strange.  How
> to check?
Ethnologue references Daniel L. Everett as writing much on Múra-Pirahã:
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MYP

His page:
http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/DE/DEHome.html

An overview, in PDF form, "Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Piraha":
http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/DE/culturalgrammar.pdf


I doubt it's a _hoax_.  It's possible that he might be wrong about some
things, but I'm more inclined to believe in it.


	*Muke!
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