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Re: Stress Borrowing?

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 20:52
Eamon Graham wrote:

> John Cowan wrote: > > > Germanic does in some ways look like a creole of Indo-European.... > > Good point. It would be fun, if not outrageously difficult, to > create a conlang meant to be an imagining-reconstructing of the > pre-Germanic pre-Indo-European substrate. A lot of the research one > would need as a foundation is probably out there, perhaps just hard > to find for the average amateur conlanger. There is, somewhere, a > dictionary online of supposed pre-Indo-European words in Germanic > languages that one could use as a starting point.
Yes. It was the work of a Prof. Mcallister at a college in Mississippi, or some such-- I get a 404 now. The idea periodically comes up on Cybalist-- I ask there if anyone knows where the site has gone