Re: Verb order in Montreiano

Ferenc Valoczy wrote:
>
>On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > > Forgive me ignorance; what's the Amerind hypothesis?  I do recall some
> > > discussion of some flaky hypothesis? that Amerind languages? were
> > > related? to something in Europe maybe? but I don't remember details or
>if
> > > it is what you're talking about here.
> >
> > Basically, that virtually every language in North and South America,
> > with the exception of the Eskimo-Aleut family and the Na-Dene family,
> > are part of a huge family.
> >
>
>Now you will all think I'm off my rocker, but here's my
>theory: Eskimo-Aleut are Uralic. I've done lots of work with Samoyedic
>languages (but little with Eskimo-Aleut), and from what I have seen, I
>think at least it's plausible.
I know little of Uralic, and almost nothing of Eskimo-Aleut, so I can't say
much of your hypothesis. However, isn't it more likely that Eskimo-Aleut and
Uralic together forms a super-family? If they do, I henceforth name it EAU -
snow (ie water, French "eau") is kind of the thing these people have in
common!

On a more serious note, the Yukaghir language of Sakha (aka Yakutia) is
thought to be related to the Uralic langs. Does it figure in your
hypothesis?

                                                         Andreas
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