Re: dating of aryans

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From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 5:28 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: dating of aryans


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> Try Yimas. Wikipedia says:
>
> The Yimas language is spoken by the Yimas people of Papua
> New Guinea. It is a polysynthetic language with (somewhat)
> free word order. It is an ergative-absolutive language
> morphologically but not syntactically, although it has
> several other case-like relations encoded on its verbs. It
> has over 9 classes (genders) of nouns, and a unique number
> system.

That's the one! With the correct name I was able to locate a
page going into a little bit more detail, at

http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/research_projects/delp/yimas.php .

David
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HPWR,

You complained that some people talk too much about something else than PIE,
Nostratic or other pre-PIE hypotheses.

What is the relevance of Yimas if Cybalist is supposed to focus on
PIE_alone_?

Apart from the fact, _you_think Yimas is interesting and
_you_heroically_find something on it.

Arnaud