From: Rick McCallister
Message: 51118
Date: 2008-01-09
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister____________________________________________________________________________________
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > I was intrigued by this article. What exactly are
> the
> > features shared by European IE & Uralic?
> > What are the implications of this?
> > If this article is correct, does this place IE
> > originally to the east of Uralic rather than to
> the
> > south? --in Central Asia as Johanna Nichols
> claimed.
> > Does it mean that Uralic was originally spoken in
> the
> > area from the Urals to the Black &/or Caspian Sea?
> > If so, is there any evidence of contact between
> Uralic
> > and N & NW Caucasian?
> >
> > Sprachbund
> > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> > . . .
> > Romance and Germanic languages of Western Europe
> > (other than English) share many features due to
> > interaction, both with one another and with
> Classical
> > Latin and Greek. Similarly there are also features
> > common to languages situated in Europe that are
> not
> > found in Indo-European languages spoken in India
> and
> > Iran, but are found in the Uralic languages. This
> is
> > because of the great migrations across Europe.
> > . . .
>
> There are some things in Slavic that are reminiscent
> of similar
> features in Fennic, ie. the use of the genitive in
> Slavic and the
> partitive in Fennic in negative contexts, where the
> rest of IE would
> use a nominative (afaIk). Also, Estonian (and the
> rest of Fennic?) has
> a special verb sajama for precipitation, Russian
> (and Slavic?) uses
> the standard IE movement verb *i- "go" for
> precipitation, where the
> rest of IE has kept separate verbs for rain, snow
> etc. Perhaps Slavic
> developed on a Fennic substrate?
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>