Re: another language reconstruction question
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Thursday, October 31, 2002, 19:04 |
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?
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.
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