Re: [tied] Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 50186
Date: 2007-10-01

 
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What has been "killed" is the expectation that Arnaud has any understanding of the meaning of 'verbal'.
 
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Most roots cannot be separated as verbal or nominal.
 
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A statement that is ignorance personified.
 
In any case, it is certainly not true of PIE,
 
PCR
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What is more : in most cases,
it is the vocalic scheme that gives the final grammatical status to
the compound : Consonant root + Vocalic scheme.
 
It is true with PIE :
dh_H1 + vowel /e/ = a verb
dh_H1 + vowel /o/ = a noun.
 
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The PIE root has the form  *CAC where *A has the form *e, *o, *ø, or *R if the final *C is a resonant. The choice is based on stress-accentual considerations not grammatical ones.                    
 
PR
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It is true also in Chinese :
n_p + vowel /a/ = verb "to enter"
n_p + vowel /o/ = noun "inside, interior"
 
This is basically a proto-World phenomenon.
There are hundreds of cases of roots grammatically undetermined.
 
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Again, pure nonsense. Even Afroasian, a closely connected language to PIE, has anything like *A.
 
I am beginning to suspect that Arnaud knows he knows nothing and only writes for an excuse to insult with his very dull wit.
 
Patrick Ryan
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