From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53426
Date: 2008-02-16
> At 10:07:18 AM on Saturday, February 16, 2008,<http://groups.google.com/group/sci.lang/msg/590544b5ed2f468e>
> Francesco
> Brighenti wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> > <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
>
> Trask on Bengtson:
>
>
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> Brian
>
>
>