Re: Verb order in Montreiano

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Roger Mills wrote:

> Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> Then it get really amusing when various "scholars" try to align this
> Super-family with various European and Asian groups-- take your pick.
>
> Aren't they overlooking the fact that the Bering bridge was open for a
> rather long time?  And that surely more than one group migrated across?
> (One of my profs. once suggested that the Ainu were next in line, but the
> ice melted and they were stuck in N.Japan. As good a theory as any.)
Oh dear.  :-p

> Speaking of the Ainu, Yoon Ha:  last Fall sometime, either PBS or Discovery
> had a quite decent program about them, with info on a website that's
> probably no longer in existence-- try google.com.  Or your library-- there's
> quite a bit, though IIRC the best grammar is in German.
Will look.  And hey...I could try to brush up my German, even though I
suspect a year of it really isn't adequate for reading anything technical
or difficult.  OTOH, who knows...my advisor keeps recommending _Lehrbuch
der Topologie_ to me, and most of the vocab I can identify pretty quickly
as math terminology, it's the grammar that'd get me.  Either that or the
first chapter, which he says is the hardest because it tries to give you
an intuitive feel for the subject in layman's terms.

YHL