From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60625
Date: 2008-10-06
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> > ============
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Op.html
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html
> which is why it is present in so many language families (the Peter
> Bellwood hypothesis).
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What is this hypothesis ?
Arnaud
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> I don't understand the relationship between your references
> and the words full and flat.
The *akW/p- root is the primeval river.
The *bh/p/-l/r- root is crossing the river, dividing stuff, going
across the river of life and death, etc. The various *plen,- etc stuff
has to do with dividing space, surface, line into two, to create a
bounded space, surface, line, and so is semantic subfield of the
*bh/p-l/r- root.
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I still do not understand what 'river' and 'divide' have to do with 'full'
and 'flat'.
Arnaud
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