Re: Can relationships between languages be determined after 80,000 y

I get the feeling Bender publishes just to be publishing by coming up with
outrageously unlikely proposals.

I have never gotten into African languages so that explains my ignorance of
Blench.

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Can relationships between languages be determined after
80,000 years?


> Blench is one of the best known linguists in the
> field. He's at Cambridge or Oxford. He specializes in
> African languages and proposes a "Niger-Saharan' group
> What are the problems with Bender?
>
> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> > I have a web document detailing what I think are
> > Bomhard's deficiencies at:
> >
> >
> http://geocities.com/proto-language/NostraticDictionary.htm
> >
> > I do not know Blench. My impression of Bender is
> > negative.
> >
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
> > To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: [tied] Can relationships between
> > languages be determined after
> > 80,000 years?
> >
> >
> > > Can you speak to the deficiencies of Ehret, Bender
> > et
> > > al.?
> > > Perhaps it might be better to do this on
> > Nostratic-L
> > > I've read Blench's views but my knowledge of AA is
> > > very limited
> > >
> > > --- etherman23 <etherman23@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> > > > <proto-language@...>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > It is amazing to me how the connections that I
> > > > theorized from Arabic
> > > > and
> > > > > Egyptian are falling into place with Afrasian
> > > > (Hamito-Semitic).
> > > > >
> > > > > I often wonder, even with the flawed work of
> > some
> > > > Nostraticists, how
> > > > anyone
> > > > > can possibly doubt the genetic relationship
> > > > between PIE and PA.
> > > >
> > > > Probably because there isn't a decent
> > reconstruction
> > > > of PAA yet.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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