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Date: 04-Jun-2005 From: John Kingston <jkingstonlinguist.umass.edu> Subject: New Yorker:Kolbert on language extinction
In her article on Eyak in the 6 June 2005 issue of the New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert asserts, 'A great wave of language extinctions, it is believed, took place eight or nine thousand years ago, following the so-called Neolithic revolution.' (pp. 46-47). I was quite surprised at this remark. Who believes this and on what grounds? I will post a summary of the responses I receive. Thank you.
John Kingston Linguistics Department University of Massachusetts jkingstonlinguist.umass.edu
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