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It is the differences between English and Eyak that are, in Krauss's view, the reason for preserving it. He asked me if I'd ever taken French. "Tout à l'heure il sera là," he said. "Tour à l'heure il était là. Well what the hell does 'tout à l'heure' mean? We have no English word for that. How would you define it-- 'now plus or minus a short while ( Read more... )

Warning: This entry is long, seriously geeky, and 90% of it is directly from my notes from last week (with some references to handouts and to the textbook). If you didn't already think that I was obsessed with linguistics & neurolinguistics... well :x I think this entry will give you more than enough reason to ( Read more... )