Re: dating of aryans

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
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> --- 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
> =============
> HPWR,
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> 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
>
>

Sometimes to getter a better view of something, you
need to step away from it and see it in perespective

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