Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

From: etherman23
Message: 53246
Date: 2008-02-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
> I don't believe in
> that *fetishist* morphology dogma.

For languages that don't have much in the way of morphology this
position would make sense. However, morphology tends to be resistant
to borrowing so when it's there it's a pretty good marker. Both PIE
and Salish have complex morphology, and they're nothing like each other.

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