I am glad to finally be able to provide a very interesting link to our
group:
http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/docs/vajda-2008.pdf
Vajda has made an absolutely brilliant analysis of the _now_ certain
relationship between Siberian Yeneseian and North American Na-Dene.
His statement on the proper way to compare language families is a classic
formulation of all the right principles, in my opinion. And he applies them
competently to the hypothesis at hand.
It is particularly exciting to me that he has identified several morphemes
that can be easily connected with my Proto-Language monosyllables, the short
listing of which is at
http://geocities.com/proto-language/PL-Monosyllables_short.htm
It is a validation of the universality of those monosyllables.
Some readers may want to compare the meanings of the morphemes he has
identified with the following PL monosyllables:
PL T?SA with YeNa <d>
PL NHA with YeNa <l> and possibly <tl>
PL NA with YeNa <n>
PL QO with YeNa final <ng>
PL FO with YeNa <w> (2nd p. sing.)
PL ¿E with YeNa <i> (1st p. sing.)
PL NO with YeNa <n> (1st. p.)
PL P?A with YeNa <b> (inanimate)
and others with the connection is less obvious.
I can hardly wait for a Proto-Yeneseian Dictionary.
Patrick