Tlingit CJ sound system? Q's about S.V. Johnson thesis
Alan H. Hartley
ahartley at D.UMN.EDU
Mon Mar 5 19:46:22 UTC 2001
David,
WAPATO got quite a bit of discussion on the list a while back: Henry
Zenk said (17 Jun 99) "Berman reconstructed Proto-Kalapuya *pdo?"
> But I wonder if many words attributed to eastern language origins
> have been biased by the east to west migration of people and linguists?
I can think of one case in which it was clearly the opposite that
occurred: the origin of the Eng. word CAMAS has long been attributed to
Nootka, but it's evident that it came from Nez Perce and entered CJ from
the east.
Alan
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