Re: glossogenesis (was: Indo-European question)

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> I think that the term "Proto-World" implies that we're talking about a
> language stage BEFORE any branching etc had taken place.
Not necessarily.  It is merely the hypothetical common ancestor of all
*extant* languages.  There may have been many other languages at the time.
Similarly, Mitochondrial Eve was not the only female Homo sapiens at the
time, merely the one whose descendants (in the female line) has survived.

Note that M.E. has to have at least two daughters.  If she had none,
she has no descendants in the female line, a contradiction.  If she
had just one, the daughter is the real M.E.

> *Is "content morpheme" a correct English terms? I refer, basically, to noun,
> verb etc stems as opposed to affixes for additional information like case,
> tense and number.
Yes.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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