Re: Genitive relationships (WAS: Construct States)
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 8, 1999, 11:49 |
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 06:41:33 +0000
From: "Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@...>
At 11:49 am -0800 7/3/99, Sally Caves wrote:
>It seems completely sensible. I think there is a split in
>traditional thinking about this phenomenon between the
>"substratal" theory and the "non-substratal," or "contact" theory.
Substratal & superstratal theories are a different matter and the
evidence is often much more tenuous, I agree.
>Orin goes into a long discussion about the tenuous evidence
>amassed on either side. If there was a substratum, for instance,
>say in Eurasia, then we have no evidence for it.
Indeed we haven't - and I've not met that theory.
Theo Vennemann is a proponent of an 'Atlantic' substrate, connected
with megalithic cultures, in Afro-Asiatic, Basque and Western European
IE languages. You can meet him on the Indoeuropean mailing list.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)