Re: Verb order in Montreiano
From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 21:26 |
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.
-------ferko
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