Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mtuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtuxn!rubin From: rubin@mtuxn.UUCP (M.RUBIN) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.sf-lovers Subject: Query on language evolution Message-ID: <618@mtuxn.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 22:06:17 EDT Article-I.D.: mtuxn.618 Posted: Fri Aug 16 22:06:17 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 04:40:15 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel NJ Lines: 7 Xref: watmath net.nlang:3483 net.sf-lovers:9571 For an SF story I'm working on, I would like to find references on how the environment affects languages (e.g. how/why did the Eskimos develop all those words for snow?) and how dialects and languages form in isolated groups of people. The story concerns some colonists who have been out of contact with Earth for a few centuries. Please reply by mail to: {ihnp4, rest of AT&T}!mtuxn!newtech!rubin