From: Andrew Howey
Message: 20260
Date: 2003-03-24
Guys, guys, guys, (and ladies):
Please, none of this answers my original query of whether the hypothesis stated at web site http://www-lib.icu.ac.jp/LibShuppan/lecture/6-2-1.html of proto-Japanese originally being a creole of an Austronesian language and an Altaic language is valid. (Okay, so I originally neglected to specify "Proto-" in my original query -- silly me... :-) Please feel free to castigate me thoroughly. :-) ) Has anyone other than Torsten taken a look at this web site? Please, comments would be greatly appreciated. After all, how would a creole language fit into the Nostratic hypothesis? Thank you,Torsten, very much for your coments.
Andy Howey
Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:
Aquila_grande:
>It seems to me that the reason goes as follows, Japanese is SOV,
>Turkish is SOV, Mongolian is SOV, then they all must originate from a
>SOV-language, and they must be related. This is nonsense.
However, if all daughter languages show an SOV word order, then we must
by Occam's Razor accept that the parent language also had an SOV word
order and that there was no change in between because this is the least
assumptive theory.
Ignorance is the true nonsense. We can't just throw away the simplest
solution or accept something more complex without justifying this action
first.
- gLeN
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