Re: [tied] Re: Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of ClassicalCivi

At 2:35:38 PM on Monday, June 5, 2006, aquila_grande wrote:

> 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

There is no reason to attribute any of these to AA
influence.

Brian