[tied] Re: Dating PIE

--- In cybalist@...,[message 10457] Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<mcv@...> wrote:

>
> We know the Hittites were in contact with Assyrians, Hurrians and
> Hattic-speakers, but when reading a Hittite text, one seldom
> encounters a word which has been positively identified as a Semitic,
> Hurrian or Hattic borrowing. In part this may be because of our

poor

> unerstanding of Hattic and to a lesser degree Hurrian, but if you

know

> the language a bit, the notion as it's sometimes presented of

Hittite

> as a thoroughly "Asianised" tongue just feels plain wrong.

*****GK: I'm curious as to your view of the gender issue [unified
masculine-feminine] in Hittite (and a couple of other old Anatolian
IE languages). Is there something similar in Hattic, Hurrian,
Assyrian etc.? If not,how does one explain this?*****