----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:14
PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] Re:
pre-Nostratic
Gerry:
>Yes, Yes, Glenie. On your below link
you call Pre-Dene-
>Caucasian "Dene-Asiatic". Others including
myself call it Eurasian.
>I do believe Alekseev also refers to it by a
similar title.
Eurasian is a confusing title. Afterall, Eurasiatic is
used
by Joseph Greenberg which is mostly a subset of Nostratic
(aside
from that badly placed Ainu, blech!). Bomhard also uses
Eurasiatic
as a subset of Nostratic. I don't think "Eurasian" will
work.