Re: *y-n,W- "subordinate"?

--- On Wed, 11/19/08, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] *y-n,W- "subordinate"?
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 4:04 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister"
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> >>
> >> That's what happens if you use Pokorny
> ignoring more
> >> recent scholarship.
> >
> > So, then, how close is the Leiden IE Project to an
> undated Pokorny?
> >
> =============
>
> Personally, I believe that an updated version of Pokorny
> should include all
> the loanwords from Indo-European languages into other
> families.
> Such a reference book would have a tremendous value.
> I'm afraid most Indo-Europeanists don't care about
> that
> and it's really a problem for (macro-)comparison in
> general.
>
> A.
>
> ========

Great, now Piotr can make you a grant collaborator for the project. Hit up Sarko for a few million in linguistic funding.
But seriously, nothing's gonna happen until someone gets off their buut and does it