Re: Existence of PIE (was: Nostratic language family)

[The quotation has been trimmed and the HTML part removed. -- Piotr]

This set of six items was idiocy from the start
but this can be considered as an exercise
in telling typology from diachronics.
Benveniste found that Takelma
a language spoken in CAlifornia also matches the set.

Cf. "Problèmes de linguistique générale" Tome 1
Gallimard, 1966,
pages 108 sequitur.

This text was first edited in 1952.

Arnaud

----- Original Message -----
From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Existence of PIE (was: Nostratic language family)


On 2008-01-27 06:37, mkelkar2003 wrote:

> Six specific structural features have to be present for a language
> to be classified as "Indo-European." I do not know what they are.

The list is well known (see one of the links below), but that's not the point. [...]

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/28764

Piotr