From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 61069
Date: 2008-10-25
>Which Nostratic list will you use, "Nostratic", "Nostratica", or
> >
> > Let's take it over to the Nostratic list, then. But keep me in
>
> I didn't know the Nostratic list was still around. They say one
> should read a list for six weeks before posting anything, so that's
> what I'll do while I cobble together a sketch of Pre-Greek as Para-
> IE. I'm not a "Nostraticist" and my views have little to do
> with "classical" Nostratic theory, so I hope N-list members will cut
> me some slack. In the meantime I have my hands full in THIS forum; I
> promised detailed expositions of 'cat' and 'path' months ago, and I
> must also answer more recent questions about morphological parallels
> to <accipiter>, Rustic Latin phonology, Veneto-Illyrian diagnostics,
> and purported Indo-Iranian hydronyms in NW Europe (admittedly a
> retread of Kretschmer's theory of Scythian hydronyms in Britain, with
> the stratum back-dated a millennium or so).
>
> DGK
>