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Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, July 7, 2003, 18:43
En réponse à John Cowan :


> Sound-change operates regularly to produce irregularity; > analogy operates irregularly to produce regularity. > --anybody know exactly which neo-grammarian said this?
I thought it was attributed to Saussure (not a neo-grammarian stricto sensu, but in many ways their spiritual heir). Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.