From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60749
Date: 2008-10-09
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From: "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:58 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Reaching Down (was: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian,
Northern Caucasian
> >
> > I think the Peter Bellwood theory is basically correct, that the
> > large language families are the result of small hunter-gatherer
> > groups learning the (Wörter und) Sachen of agriculture, then going
> > on to fill out the landscape around them.
> > Torsten
Two pdf files under Bellwood in the files section.
M. Kelkar
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There's something much better here :
http://arts.anu.edu.au/AandA/people/staff/pdfs/bellwood2003.pdf
It's fairly uncommittal,
probably because Bellwood wrote this with somebody else.
Arnaud
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