Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)
| From: | Rob Haden <magwich78@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 15:11 |
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:55:32 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg=20Rhiemeier?=
<joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
>As to me, I consider such a relationship possible, but I am not fully
>convinced by the evidence I have seen. I am pretty certain, though,
>that IE and Uralic are related. Both are indeed remarkably similar
>with regard to morphology. The IE phonology and syntax, however,
>shows parallels to Kartvelian (e.g. ablaut alternations; active-stative
>alignment). My personal theory is that PIE was a sister language
>of Proto-Uralic on a substratum related to Kartvelian, or something
>like that.
Can you elaborate on the similarities between IE and Kartvelian?
>Possibly, in pre-PIE, the verb agreed with the patient not in number, only
>in person.
I would say that active verbs agreed with the agent in person, and stative
verbs agreed with the patient/focus in person.
- Rob