From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 64006
Date: 2009-06-04
>I do not agree with 'knowing' extension.....see my other posts
> > What have "blood links" got to do with
> > sons-in-law?
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> To me this debate seems a little wrong-headed. Sons-in-law are part of a
> family; and languages can be imagined which extend either "knowing" or
> "begetting" in a huge variety of ways. Instead, we should listen to the
> firm linguistic evidence that schwebeablaut does not exist, and *g'n-H is
> "know", while *g'-nH is "beget".
> Peter
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