Continental divide. (Up Front). From: Alberta Report | Date: March 18, 2002| Author: Cosh, Colby | COPYRIGHT 2002 United Western Communications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The linguistics community is agog, the Boston Globe reports February 14, over the unexpected revival of an idea long thought discredited: the Whorfian hypothesis. In the early 20th century, the American engineer Benjamin Lee Whorf studied the Hopi Indians, whose language lacks verb tenses, and ventured that the structure of their language might change how the Hopi perceive time--in short, that language may be logically prior to thought. Anthropologists spent the rest of the century...

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