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