Hometown U: Professor sees tremendous vitality where Alaska's languages clash (fwd link)

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Hometown U: Professor sees tremendous vitality where Alaska's languages
clash

BY KATHLEEN MCCOY

Hometown UBy KATHLEEN McCOYDecember 14, 2013

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Jennifer Stone joined UAA six years ago and teaches the history of the
English language, among other classes. That story is long and complex,
documenting how many other languages shaped the English we speak today.

To make some of the concepts relevant to her students, Stone looked locally
for examples of what happens when different languages splash up against
each other.

She could hardly find richer territory than the 49th state, known for
varied indigenous languages and, in more modern times, as the landing site
for immigrants and refugees from around the world. She'd stumbled into a
language mother lode.
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