Re: Verb order in Montreiano

At 4/2/01 05:56 PM -0400, you wrote:
>YHL wrote:>
>>On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>>
>> > > Interesting.  Do you give yourself a few "sample words" to start with
>> > > (before doing core vocab) to work with morphology?  I find it easier
>>to
>> > > "see" what's going on with even morphology *I've* invented when it's
>> > > applied to an actual word, but that may be a peculiarity of my brain.
>>:-)
>> >
>> > I'm the same way, so either it's normal, or we're related ;) But then
>>I've
>> > heard tell that Korean and Hungarian may be distantly related...
>>
>><interested look>  I don't remember hearing that one, or maybe what with
>>the various theories floating around, I'm just confused.
>
>I've got a map that confidently tell me they're both Ural-Altaic ... but
>they this for what it's worth, since the same map tells me Iraq is
>IE-speaking ...
The Kurds in Iraq speak an IE language.

>Ok, the later is a misprint, but some think that Japanese and Korean are
>related to Altaic (I don't know whether this is a majority opinion),
Merritt Ruhlen is a linguist notorious for lumping languages together on
the sketchiest evidence -- he is a proponant of the Amerind hypothesis.
(Enough said.) But even he has decided that the evidence for connecting
Japanese-Korean-Ainu with Altaic is not good enough to accept.

I don't know what that's worth, given how little credit I give him on other
judgement calls, but I do find it a good indicator of how good the evidence is.



Marcus Smith

"Sit down before fact as a little child,
be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,
follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads,
or you shall learn nothing."
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