Re: Proto-Altaic Phonology (inc. Vowel Harmony)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 16, 2000, 15:19 |
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At 12:52 13.7.2000 -0400, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>Funnily, it seems that Proto-Altaic reconstruction is now based on
>a larger root list than Proto-IE... despite the fact that Starostin
>includes in his main database only roots attested in three or more
>branches (with some exceptions for the pronominal morphemes and the like).
Probably because divergence is for the most part less -- if because of
greater stability in the structure of the lgs in question (Finnish is
definitely more stable than any IE lg I know save Sanskrit!), or because it
was more recent I cannot say.
/BP
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