Re: Genitives NPs as Relative Clauses

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.

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