[Lexicog] bat

billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU
Thu Sep 15 20:41:55 UTC 2005


The negative associations of bats are not traditional among
the Carrier. The one dialect that has "devil bird", with one
component borrowed from French, is the dialect that has been
subject to the most intensive colonial influence. The term
surely reflects a European attitude toward bats.

--
Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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