<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Dear Lisa,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">it was very nice to meet you after such a long time. I am so happy to know that you are doing well and capturing the languages that may go into oblivion. Thanks a lot of the Apatani shawl...I am waiting for winter to arrive.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">I was going through your powerpoint and was little intrigued by this line. Slide 18. What do you mean here?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:25pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">Context:
The above </span><span style="font-size:25pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">lullabye</span><span style="font-size:25pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"> is a
part of folk tale where the </span><span style="font-size:25pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">childfather</span><span style="font-size:25pt;font-family:calibri;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:25pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">addresses
his motherless </span><span style="font-size:25pt;font-family:calibri;color:black">and
expresses his wish that the child grows up .....</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Prof. (Dr.) Anvita Abbi </span></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hon Director of Centre for Oral and Tribal Literature</span><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, India<br></font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University</span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Vancouver, Canada</font></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">President: Linguistic Society of India</span></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.andamanese.net/" target="_blank">www.andamanese.net</a><br></font></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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