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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Guillamon"
<roger.guillamon@...> wrote:
> Can someone give me some information about Proto-pontic language?
> Specially i'm looking for an article writed by John Colarusso in
the
> Journal of Indo-European Studies, volume 25, page 119, year 1997.
> Thank you all...
>
> Roger Guillamon
Colarusso neatly describes his Proto-Pontic theory at the beginning
of the JIES article:
"In 1987, after I had presented a reconstruction of Proto-Northwest
Caucasian (Colarusso, 1989a) (henceforth PNWC), Eric Hamp suggested
to me (personal communication) that I endeavor to determine if PIE
and PNWC might be genetically related. The following paper presents
my first results suggesting that PIE and PNWC are genetically
related at a phyletic level."
More recently, he's published another article "More Pontic: Further
Etymologies between Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian", in
Holisky and Tuite (Eds.) 2003, Fs. Howard Aronson, pp41-60.
This second article is more specialised, proposing links between a
few specific roots, while the original JIES paper sets out his
comparison from scratch, giving his reconstructions for a shared
Proto-Pontic sound system, roots, suffixes, endings, particles,
pronouns etc.
As far as I know, his PIE-PNWC comparison is still a one-man theory,
but I'd be very interested to hear if there are any other adherents -
or any discussion of his ideas. Are there any NW Caucasian experts
who can tell us whether his attempts to link the very different
morphological systems of PIE and PNWC are plausible?
Best wishes to everyone on Cybalist,
yours, Oliver Simkin