--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote: > Nihil Sum scripsit:
>
> > This discussion has me curious now. Just how much of a Proto-Indo-European
> > language has been reconstructed? Are there any sites that could show me
> > some examples, some grammar, etc?
I will send some links later.
> We have several different flavors of phonology (everybody agrees
> to use the one first devised even though it is known to be flawed, just
> for the sake of communication), a great deal of morphology, enough vocabulary
> to discuss the necessities of life, and almost nothing about syntax.
Yes. It is remarkable how many completely different reconstructions of PIE
there are. Not long ago I saw a simple sentence translated by various experts
into (their) Proto-Indo-European, with results that could hardly be considered
examples of one and the same language.
Jan
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