Bomgard's dates places the language mega family
smack in the middle of Neanderthal.
Possibly if you Glen would open your eyes to the
rest of the world you might solve some of the dilemmas that continue occurring
in linguistics.
Linguistics rationale is purely in the eye of the
beholder. Phooey on that, I say.
Gerry
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] Nostratic's
ancestor
>Glen: What do Neanderthals have to do with
anything here??
>
>Gerry responds: Now that's silly.
Someone needs to speak the language
>before a language can have an
identity.
Let's be clear. I'm not going to get dragged into a totally
stupid
conversation about Neanderthals. Your reasoning's so far out into
left field
that I can only assume you have been neglecting to take you
medication
lately. Seriously. Utterly, pathetically ridiculous. Don't
bother me with it
again. It's not relevant to anything we're talking
about.
>Oh, Dear Glennie. I thought by the term "word
class prefixes" you were
>referring to the word "class" as in
aristocratic vs worker vs slave etc.
"Word class" is a common
linguistic term that you should familiarize
yourself
with.
>Interesting. What possibly could be the fourth
person in Navajo?
Again, the "obviative" or "fourth person" is a
linguistic term you need
to familiarize yourself with. It might be more
clearly described as
the second of two third persons. If we have two
people, Bill and John, we
refer to both of them as "he" or "him" in
English. So if we say that
"John went to Bill's house.", we may replace
everything with third person
pronouns to get "He went to his house."
However, we then have trouble
distinguishing between "he" (John) and "he"
(Bill). In NaDene languages
and some Algonquian languages, this is resolved
by using differing pronouns
for "he" depending on whether one is refering
to John or Bill.
-
gLeN
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