Re: [tied] Pat's ProtoWorld Playland

--- In cybalist@..., MCLSSAA2@... wrote:

>
> Accidental resemblances can happen in grammar as well as in
> vocabulary. E.g. putting a pronoun prefix on subject as well as on
> verb :: for "I, Peter, sing", French has "Moi Pierre je chante",

and

> Nahuatl has "niPetoloh nicuia", exactly parallel, and completely
> accidental. So, e.g. how much reliance is there in such things
> as looking for areas of ergative languages?

That puzzled me too. Is there some Spanish dialect (or perhaps style
of Spanish) that does something similar that might have influenced
those that wrote down the language?

Torsten