Re: Nostratic (was Re: Schwebeablaut (was Re: tolkien?))

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:04:35  0100 =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Rhiemeier
<joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote.

>I think the most useful approach is to examine not six or more
>families at a time, but to concentrate on two or three first,
>and then look at similarities of morphology.  From my own studies
>in this area, I consider it likely that Indo-European, Uralic,
>Eskimo-Aleut and perhaps Etruscan are indeed related to each other.
Yes. My own plan is to look at IE and Uralic, only, since AFAICT they're the
most readily related. As yet, I don't even have enough information to be
sure in my own mind of which PIE reconstruction I favour, although I tend to
accept a fairly mainstream approach.

Does your i/a/u ablaut make PIE easier to relate to Uralic? I know *nothing*
of Uralic reconstruction.

While I'm in the mood for asking, does the glottalic theory make PIE easier
to relate to Uralic?



Paul