Re: [tied] Tyrrhenian and its relation to IE

From: Patrick C. Ryan
Message: 8704
Date: 2001-08-23

Dear Cybalisters:

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From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:35 PM
Subject: [tied] Tyrrhenian and its relation to IE


>
> Pat slowly comes around to reason:
> >Sumerian is an ergative language. Kartvelian is a mixed nom-acc./erg.-abs.
> >language. I know of no demonstrated eragtive
> >characteristic of Afro-asiatic.
>
> We can conclusively say that there is no "ergative" characteristic
> of AA, as you say >:P

[GG]
> I wonder why the EncBrit would conspire to make such a big fat fib
> like "Hamito-Semitic apparently developed from a protolanguage
> with an ergative type of sentence construction". You can never
> trust those encyclopaedias anymore, what with their heavily
> researched information 'n all.

[PCR]
In view of the recent false attribution of an accusative -*m to Kerns, perhaps it would be nice to have the exact Brittanica reference (if it actually exists).

<snip>

Pat

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