[etnolinguistica] Ipeca-Tapuia?

[Daniel Everett]

Gente,

O pessoal da LSA tinha uma pergunta sobre uma lingua citada no livro, 
The Testament, de John Grisham. Alguem sabe se ainda tem falantes desta 
lingua?

Abracos,

Daniel

>> From: Tony Woodbury <acw at mail.utexas.edu>
>> To: danl_everett at hotmail.com
>> Subject: Fwd:
>> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:39:18 -0500
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> This came from the LSA.
>>
>> Do you know of a person expert in this language?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>> Delivered-To: acw at mail.utexas.edu
>>> X-Sender: lsa at his.com
>>> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:32:04 -0400
>>> To: golla at ssila.org, mike_cahill at sil.org, acw at mail.utexas.edu
>>> From: LSA <lsa at lsadc.org>
>>>
>>> Dear Mike, Tony, and Victor:
>>>
>>> Ray Jackendoff and Fritz Newmeyer suggested that you three might be 
>>> able to
>>> help identify someone who knows "ipica" or "Ipeca," an Amerindian 
>>> lagnuage
>>> in Brazil. In case you are wondering why this request, Fritz 
>>> received the
>>> following message from Peter Trudgill. Both Ray and Fritz feel that 
>>> the
>>> Executive Committee or one of our subcommittees should take action.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Fritz,
>>> On p. 250 of John Grisham's "The Testament" (1999) he writes, of an
>>> Amerindian language in Brazil,"Their language was a series of primal 
>>> grunts
>>> and strains". (  Grisham calls them the 'Ipica'. Ethnologue lists a
>>> Brazilian language called 'Ipeca'. ) There are other similar remarks
>>> elsewhere.
>>> My reference is to the paperback version published by Island Books, a
>>> subsidairy of Dell, which is a subsidiary of Random House.
>>> In view of Grisham's enormous sales. do you think an official word 
>>> form the
>>> LSA to Grisham and his publishers might be in order?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> Your suggestions would be most appreciated.
>>> Best, Maggie
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Daniel L. Everett
Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
Postgraduate Admissions Officer and
Postgraduate Tutor
Department of Linguistics
The University of Manchester
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