Re: [tied] Tyrrhenian and its relation to IE

> 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".

Semitic retains a sharp distinction between stative verbs and non-stative
verbs. This is even more noticeable than in the traces which remain in PIE
(middle/perfect against active/aorist/present). Could this be part of the
reason why whoever wrote the article held this conviction?

Peter