Ket-Na-Dene affiliation?

[Scott DeLancey]

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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, WB (in Frankfurt today) wrote:
 
> do not go beyond some rather superficial remarks. Finally I wonder if
> someone has ever read Laurence Farget's M.A. thesis _Na-Dene and Sino-
> Tibetan: Historical linguistics and new data towards establishing genetic
> relationship_ (Lyon 1986), or would know, how to get a copy of it.
 
I have a 13-page "abrege" of the thesis ("Na-Dene et sino-tibetain:
synthese et nouvelles donnees pour une eventualle parente"), but it
is just a brief literature review, with no new evidence presented.
I too would like to see the complete thesis.  For some reason she seems to
attach some importance to Benedict's reconstruction of a two-tone system
for Proto-Sino-Tibetan, which is not a very popular idea within the
field--I think most Sino-Tibetanists currently reconstruct PST without
tone.
 
Scott DeLancey
Department of Linguistics
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403, USA
 
delancey at darkwing.uoregon.edu
http://www.uoregon.edu/~delancey/prohp.html