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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <st-george@...> wrote:
> > mkelkar2003 wrote:
> "the three grade abluat (=vowel gradation) in Sanskrit (a real
> language!) seems much more convincing than the five grade one proposed
> by indoeuropeanist (paranthesis added, Kazanas, 2004)."
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Karl+Popper&btnG=Google+Search
>
> Therefore, no need to make anything up.
Kazanas has closed his mind to linguists' explanations. I wonder how
he explains away the five-grade Classical Greek gradation seen in:
paté:r (n.s.), patéros, patrós (g.s.), patrási (d.pl.) 'father'
eupáto:r (n.s.), eupátoros (g.s.) 'born of a noble sire'
eúpatris (-d-) 'born of a noble sire'
The qualitative ablaut is going strong in English (e.g. sing, sang,
sung). I would not be surprised if Kazanas rejects it because he has
not been given an easily comprehensible *explanation* of the
phenomenon. It does seem that it is a very complex phenomenon - life
can be complicated.
Kazanas does not appear to understand Grassman's law and its effect on
the reduplicated syllable. (Perhaps he has not realised that
Grassman's law in Greek and in Sanskrit are, at the surface level at
least, independent.) I wonder if he's ever tried to relate Modern
Greek to Classical Greek. I suspect he might appreciate historical
linguistics better if he did - unless he concluded that there was no
relationship between Modern and Classical Greek!
Richard.