Re: Proper methodology (was: RE: [tied] Re: Mother of all IE langua

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:54:18 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:48:47 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Does this mean that Japanese once had pronouns, which were
>replaced?
>>
>> Vovin reconstructs PJap *ban "I, we", *sO- and *na "thou, you".
>>
>
>Do you have a reference?

My direct source is Alexander Vovin, "Nostratic and Altaic", in:
Salmons/Joseph, "Nostratic, Sifting the evidence", Benjamins 1998.

More details should be found in other works by Sasha Vovin, more
specifically dedicated to Old/Proto-Japanese.

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