Re: Verb order in Montreiano

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.
>
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.)

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.

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