From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61743
Date: 2008-11-20
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>> >
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>>
>> 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.
>>
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>
> 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
>
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If we (or I) had a team of linguists with funding,
I know what I would make them work on :
- detailed etymological dictionaries of all Uralic languages,
to get out of the mess we're in with that family,
and a reliable reconstruction of that family,
(preferably done without current proto-Uralists...)
- the above update Pokorny v.2 with all the putative LWs,
to get rid of the Eurasiatic and alias junk,
- a comparative dictionary of Semitic + Berber + Egyptian/coptic,
to have lexical tools to sort out which languages to the south deserves to
be kept on board HS,
to get out of the Afro-Asiatic quagmire created by Greenberg and alias,
- an etymological dictionary of Turcic compared to Chinese,
because i'm increasingly convinced the closest family to Chinese may well be
Turcic,
And Turcic is less "destroyed" by IE languages than Uralic.
Once this is done, and we can see what the macro-comparative jungle looks
like,
We proceed to another Phase 2 (to be defined)
This is my own visibility horizon at the moment
and I won't do all that alone....
A.