From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60498
Date: 2008-09-29
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From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>
>> Well,
>> if we first go back to real DATA,
>
> I pointed you at real data.
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Where ?
A reconstruction is not real data.
Arnaud
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>
>> I can't see any reason why the first phoneme should be
>> different from the last.
>
> Because you haven't looked at enough data. I imagine that
> the Ge'ez, Tigrinya, Sabaean, and Mehri reflexes are part of
> the evidence for the different third consonant.
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I imagine that ...
Where is your data ?
Arnaud
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> But trying to find regular correspondences between PIE and
> PSem. is rather pointless, unless you think that PIE is a
> branch of Afro-Asiatic.
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I'm trying to remain calm,
in front of such idiocy.
I made a vow.
Don't worry,
sooner or later you'll have your regular correspondences between PIE and
Semitic.
But I will probably not use the current reconstructions of PS unamended.
The next point is regular correspondences between PIE and Semitic does not
mean PIE should be a branch of AA.
They can be cognate at a higher level.
You don't even understand how the comparative method works...
Arnaud
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>> Who is this M. Saenz-Badillos ?
>
> Hebrew Professor at the Departamento de Hebreo, Universidad
> Complutense, Madrid, Spain; one of his particular interests
> is the history of the Hebrew language, on which he has
> written a widely-used survey. (It was revised and
> translated into English a few years ago; I believe that a
> translation into French is in the works.)
>
> Brian
>
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Thank you.
Arnaud
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