From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 53393
Date: 2008-02-16
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallisterTrask on Bengtson:
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>> Be careful with Bengtson's information. Even after
>> Larry Trask showed him that much of his Basque
>> vocabulary consisted of loanwords from Romance, he
>> refused to even consider the possibility. I don't know
>> how good his information is from other sources but his
>> work on Basque is seriously flawed because he lets his
>> grand design get in the way of facts.
>> Basically Bengtson refused to believe that pre-Basque
>> lacked /m/, something that Basque specialists seem to
>> agree on. He also refused to consider words from
>> Gascon, Aragonese as probable sources for loanwords
>> into Basque --e.g. eme "woman, female (morpheme)" <
>> Gascon heme "woman" < femina; okondo < native Basque
>> oko "arm" + ondo "bottom (morpheme)" from Gascon or
>> Spanish hondo are a couple I remember.
> Some details of this controversy are found on Bengtson's
> Basque database recently put online:
> http://tinyurl.com/3b9cuq
> http://tinyurl.com/2jxwmg