Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 21, 2004, 15:47 |
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In a message dated 8/20/2004 8:49:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:
>This is beyond freaky. I strongly suspect that the Pirahã have
>some kind of inbred genetic defect: maybe not SLI but something like it.
Since Everett notes that Piraha "has the most complex verbal morphology I'm
aware of", whatever is involved would have to be greatly different from SLI,
which (as I understand it) would make it hard to acquire such morphology.
Doug