Re: Verb order in Montreiano
From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 3:07 |
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.
Hmm. Somehow I'm guessing that this doesn't look terribly likely. Thanks.
YHL, learning