Re: A New language tree

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> > 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.

He will do that when the IEL consider the full declension of nru:

"IE linguists comment profusely on nara but hardly even bother to
consider the full declension of nr. Yet here we have a paradonxical
situation. If nara is older than nr (or nr is an Indoaryan innovation,
or whatever else, but definitely, but, in any case, not earlier than
nara), we should find in RV more compounds with nara-as first member
than compounds with nr (Kazanas, 2004),"

<http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/documents/SPIE.pdf>


M. Kelkar