Nors Josephson's Theory about a linguistic and cultural influence of Ancient Greek on East-Polynesia

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In a message dated 10/13/99 5:33:08 PM, MF1107 at mclink.it wrote:

<<I should like to know some scholarly opinion about N. Josephson's theories
concerning a presumptive linguistic Greek influence on Pacific area (ex. gr.
cf. N. Josephson, Greek Linguistic Elements in the Polynesian Languages,
Universitaetsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1987; or Idem, Eine
archaisch-griechische Kultur auf der Osterinsel, Universitaetsverlag C. Winter,
Heidelberg, 1999 ).>>

For those interested, there's a brief page on Josephson's '87 piece with word
comparisons at:
http://www.ancientgr.com/Unknown_Hellenic_History/Eng/Words_in_Hawai.htm
(the url may wrap around in e-mail and have to be deleted back to one line)

S. Long