Re: [tied] Pronouns again

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 17980
Date: 2003-01-23

>>Borrowings between Sumerian and IE would be like borrowings
>>between Proto-Germanic and Dravidian. Not very likely.
>
>I would say more like borrowings between Semitic and Indo-European (likely
>or not, they are there).

But they are _proven_ to be there by concrete examples like
*septm which show fossilized Semitic grammar. Not so with
Sumerian and lacking any concrete evidence, we additionally
have an even greater problem in respect to geographical
distances.


- gLeN


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