From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53972
Date: 2008-02-22
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From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish
Because it creates a false dichotomy between Semitic
and non-Semitic, presupposing that all non-Semitic AA
languages form one branch. Given what we know about
AA, that is misleading at best and comes across as
ignorant
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The dichotomy is not inadequate.
Semitic displays a certain number of innovative features :
- vowel length
- proliferating morphology (3-C roots)
You cannot find this in the rest of PAA.
Vowel length in Egyptian and Coptic
results from position of stress.
Proto-Egyptian had only *a *i *u.
Arnaud
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