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Re: Genitives NPs as Relative Clauses

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, November 18, 2001, 3:11
Keith Gaughan scripsit:

> Ok. Before I go offlist, could you explain how? I'd be quite interested in > this. I've always thought of prepositional pronouns as being rather an > anomaly. I'd say though that this has prompted more than one person to put > forward a monogenesis hypothesis or two...
Check out the old Conlang thread archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/40603 for more details. Overall, informed list sentiment is against the Celtic/Semitic theory (if it's an adstrate effect, how did it become so pervasive in insular Celtic?), but I still cling to the notion. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan

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Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>