Word Order and verb endings (was Re: No Proto-Celtic?)

[proto-language]

Dear Thomas and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas McFadden" <tmcfadde at babel.ling.upenn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:22 PM

> it seems to me that explanations of this type (both the one from
> Vidhyanath Rao and Patrick Ryan's response to it) are going to run
> serious danger of violating some desirable version of the uniformitarian
> principle.  unless i misunderstand what they're arguing.

[PCR]

I do not immediately see the application. Why not explain the connection you
see?

Pat

PATRICK C. RYAN | PROTO-LANGUAGE at email.msn.com (501) 227-9947 * 9115 W. 34th
St. Little Rock, AR 72204-4441 USA WEBPAGES: PROTO-LANGUAGE:
http://www.geocities.com/proto-language/ and PROTO-RELIGION:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/proto-religion/indexR.html "Veit ec
at ec hecc, vindgá meiði a netr allar nío, geiri vndaþr . . . a þeim
meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn." (Hávamál 138)