On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 03:02:37 +0000, Glen Gordon ... But does Anatolian lack a dual? Szemerényi mentions the Luwian duals <pata>, <issara>, <aruta> "feet",...
Also the Hittite ntr.pl. forms in -i must come from somewhere. It fits the dual of the other languages, so does the ntr.pl. -e of the enclitic stem -a-, and so...
On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 14:50:23 +0200 (MET DST), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen ... Agreed. The n.pl. in -i occurs not only in i-stems (where it regularly reflects...
Tee-hee, as I have said a number of time already, Sanskrit *is* monovocalic in exactly the sense of the most extremist view of PIE. That, however, does not...
Is there found out from which actualy Albanian "th" derives? As far as I could inform myself, there are some thoughts as follow: th < PIE *k ( Jokl and...
... It means 'count ' even today. The common ground may be 'gather information'. Russian c^itat' 'read' : c^islo 'number', etc. ... Of course the theory was...
Hi Piotr, I apologize if you've been over this in detail in the past, if so I can look in the archives, but exactly how would you say Albanian derived from...
... The explanation is very easy. Migration. Just because none knows something about a such migration, it doesn't means this should be excluded. At least...
Why do some still think Indo-European Speakers="Caucasians". I still come across this way of thinking in books, and it seems many still make this connection. ...
Hi Jens, you make some valid points. I hope you are right. I will be happy to agree with you one day. And no, I did not mean the speaking skills of our...
... From: Michael J Smith To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 8:25 PM Subject: [tied] Piotr..your thoughts on....? ... look in the...
... From: Michael J Smith To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 9:37 PM Subject: [tied] irrelevence of race ... across this way of thinking...
... I can ... derived from ... northern ... colonists and ... might ... century. But all ... Romanised ... ************ According not only to my view, as...
Hi Rob, ... and ... the ... originally ... Yes. Most generally, all speech should have been just tone in the beginning. ... the low ... That would sound...
... From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [tied] irrelevence...
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I can think of a language. Babies "say" exclusively /a/ in the beginning. They say other vowels as well, but I think that happens later. I have not read...
... Just as all Indo-Iranian languages. in exactly the sense of the most extremist view of PIE. That, ... But Jens, how will you account for the /i/ and /u/ in...
... European ... guess that ... than ... I read somewhere that some Native American tribes were highly specialized (that would be genetically, you need enzymes...
... Ah, excellent. While I disagree that the earliest language should've been completely tonal, I do think that there was some stage of PIE that had a tonal...
... That's very easy: Just like IE [i] and [u] which are simply realizations of the phonemes /y/ and /w/ where not adjacent to a vowel. If the [i] of IE...
... Hold your horses! You're bombing the field back to the time before the neogrammarians. What happened to the "Palatalgesetz" which was "in the air" in the...
... never ... ************ But, what about Albanian, that has also PIE /eu/, /oi/, /ai/ > e and /au/, /ou/ > /a/. Does it seems that Albanian ancestor broke...
... (=proteins) ... start ... are ... was ... population. I believe lactose tolerance in adults is another good example. ... group ... A good point. There have...
