From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56041
Date: 2008-03-27
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From: jouppe
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You answered none of my two questions:
1) Where did you take the idea that Finnic would have added second
syllble stem vowels ad hoc to formerly monosyllable stems?
Jouppe
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It took it from Uralic data :
When the word is CvC
The last C falls in PErmic
House : ka and ko
When the word is CvCv
The last C does not fall in PErmic
Arrow : nil
The first preliminary step for reconstruction
is to collect data about the languages
the second step is to look at the data.
Is it too hard ?
I can explain slower if you need it.
ARnaud
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2) How do you argue such a development by analogy against language
universal developments? (Here you should be at ease, you have 6000+
languages to chose from, and I only know a dozen of them).
Jouppe
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What do you mean ?
This is completely irrelevant
for the current issue about PU ?
Arnaud
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