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Record #201872:

'Sno myth / David Robson.

Title: 'Sno myth / David Robson.
Author(s): Robson, David.
Date: 2012.
Publisher: [London]: [New Scientist]
Abstract: Confirms Franz Boas's observation in 1911 that Eskimo peoples have large number of words for "snow". Explains how polysynthesis in Eskimo languages contributes to lexical variety.
Notes:

Detached from: New Scientist. Vol. 216, no. 2897.

Keywords: 81 -- Linguistics and languages.
39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo.
551.578.4 -- Ice needles, sleet, falling snow and graupel.
811.562 -- Inuit languages.
S -- Literature and Language.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-PAM: (*3) : 39[Eskimo][R]
SPRI record no.: 201872

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