The influence is seen allready in classical greek. The influence
upon Latin is seen fully by the development of the romance languages.
Examples of afro-asiatic traits:
-Word order: SVO/VSO instead of old IE SOV.
-Definite article
-Preprositions instead of cases or postpositions
-Attributs after their head
-Loss of flexional comparative and superlative, and development of
constructions like it: grosso, piu grosso, il piu grosso
-Two genders - masculine and feminine
Meny of these fetures was characteistic of Old Egyptian and Old
Semitic languages, and gradually the IE languages around the
Mediterraneans Sea have conformed to the same structure.
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:
>
> >Greek and the IE languages around the Mediterranean Sea are ...
strongly
> >influences
> >by the afro-asiatic languages in their structure.
>
> I find that extremely hard to accept. There are some parallels
between
> Afro-Asiatic and PIE, but I cannot think of a single example where
AA could
> have influenced Greek or Latin.
>
> No doubt my scepticism is due to my ignorance.
> So could you give examples to support your claim, please?
>
> Peter
>