Re: Yeniseian

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From: "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:21 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Yeniseian

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Thank you, Francesco,

You're a cornucopia of on-line references !

I have sent my article to the Russians,
so I suppose they are the most competent to validate or invalidate my
proposal.

Just to give an example, Vajda's first word :
PY *sin 'old' : PIE *sen
Etc.

I don't believe a single letter or figure in Mrs Nichols' statistical
approach.
A meat-grinder has never been promoted Maitre Queux.

Arnaud

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>
>
> I hope you have incorporated in your article a discussion of Edward
> Vajda's linguistic study that established on firmer grounds than
> ever before that Yeniseian and Na-Dene are close relatives:
>
> http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/docs/vajda-2008.pdf
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> Cf. Jeff Leer's and Johanna Nichols' papers at
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> http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/docs/leer-2008.pdf
> http://www.safarmer.com/Indo-Eurasian/nichols-2008.pdf
>
> See also Vajda's posts to the MTLR List:
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> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MTLR/message/1341
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MTLR/message/1343
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MTLR/message/1390
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> And to the Indo-Eurasian_research List:
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/9536
>
> Regards,
> Francesco
>