Discussion Details
| Title: | Discussion on Piraha: A Side Note |
| Submitter: | Peter T. Daniels |
| Description: | A side note on the Piraha question:
In his Current Anthropology article, Dan Everett invokes Hockett's ''design features of language.'' Chas Hockett was always very irritated when someone cited the popularization in the September 1960 Scientific American; he wanted scholars to cite the scholarly presentations, the most widely available one being in Greenberg's 1963 Universals volume (see the introductory note in Hockett's *The View from Language: Selected Essays 1948-1974* (Athens: U GA Pr, 1977), 124f. |
| Date Posted: | 27-Apr-2007 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
General Linguistics
Historical Linguistics Linguistic Theories History of Linguistics Cognitive Science Anthropological Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 18.1288 |
| Posted: | 27-Apr-2007 |
