Re: Active, Was: Help with grammar terms

Am 01/14 13:42  dirk elzinga yscrifef:
> Hey.
>
> In their huge book _Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans_ Gamqrelidze
> and Ivanov also defend the proposal that PIE was active-stative. They
> also were among the first proponents of the glottalic theory in PIE
> phonology.
>
> The book reads rather oddly from a Western academic point of view. As
> the translator (Johanna Nichols) notes in her preface, the authors
> assume that their proposals are correct, and the book is a working out
> of this initial group of assumptions rather than a collection of
> arguments defending each proposal. The arguments are implicit in how
> well the whole story hangs together. This is said to be typical of
> Russian academic writing; I found it refreshingly straightforward.
>
I am still working through the notes I took from the second half of that
book on semantics as a basis for Vokhoman conculture.  Some of the
extrapelation seemed a bit left-field to me, but it was so thorough.

- andrew.
--
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