From: Rick McCallister
Message: 62656
Date: 2009-01-29
>I've wondered if Spanish impersonal se and it's medio-passive-like use of the reflexive may not have been somehow inspired by Basque ergative, i.e. someway to recreate it in another system.
> How come that none of the languages surrounding Basque
> share its
> typological profile? Why has Basque not influenced Romance
> considerably?
>Yeniseian supposedly moved north from the head of the Yenisei valley, near present Tuva or W. Mongolia. I think I got that from Wiki, FWIW. Perhaps it came from farther south
> > Which part of Siberia could Yeniseic be native to ?