On 9/24/2012 10:18 PM, David Holm wrote:
> I recommend Alexandra Aikhenwald's Language contact in Amazonia, OUP,
> 2002, which describes a situation in Amazonia in which there is
> mandatory linguistic exogamy, i.e. you have to marry someone who
> speaks a different language.
>
Very interesting! Kamal Sridhar has documented a converse
situation in Thanjavur, India, where the endogamy enforced by the caste
system combined with the fact that the Marathi speakers in the area were
all Brahmins and the Dravidian language speakers were not Brahmins to
preserve that variety of Marathi for hundreds of years.
http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/acalendar/EventList.aspx?view=EventDetails&eventidn=3043&information_id=9598&type=&rss=rss
I will be posting the audio and video of her presentation soon on
http://ilaword.org; I'll try to let you all know when it's up.
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-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
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