LL-L "Pronomina" 2002.07.21 (01) [E]

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From: erek gass <egass at caribline.com>
Subject: LL-L "Pronomina" 2002.07.20 (01) [E]

Then, too, there are "random covergences", e.g. Italian "donna" =
Japanese "onna".

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From: UB82DN at aol.com
Subject: LL-L "Pronomina" 2002.07.20 (01) [E]

Liewe Laaglanders,

The pronoun series: 1st person in -m-, 2d person -s- or -t-, 3rd person
various, runs through Indo-European and a number of neighboring language
families. This could be taken as evidence for wider grouping into
"superfamilies" like Nostratic (there are other proposals). Perhaps the
best short introduction is M. Kaiser and V. Sheveroshkin, "Nostratic,"
_Annual Review of Anthropology_, 17 (1988), pp. 309-329.

Soviet linguists were especially open to such hypotheses, as in the
works of V. Illic-Svityc, A. Dolgopolsky, and V. Sheveroshkin. There is
a massive
reconstruction of Indo-European linguistics by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov
(esp.
phonology) with big implications for macro-family research. The work of
the
Americans Joseph Greenberg and Merritt Ruhlen should also be mentioned.

We may be dealing with deep-layered genetic relationships in the pronoun
similarities between I.E. and Finno-Ugric.

Cheers,
Joe Stromberg

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