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Sapir-Whorf at it's best

Sapir-Whorf at it's best

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For example, in a situation in which English might say There’s a rope lying on the ground, Atsugewi [a language of Northern California] might use the single polysynthetic verb form woswalaka ... [This can] be glossed as ‘a-flexible-linear-object-is-located on-the-ground because-of-gravity-acting-on-it’.

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