Re: Lin: clauses - Part 1.
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Monday, April 15, 2002, 3:24 |
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> Me too. There's nothing nicer and more refreshing than someone whose first
> language is not Indo-European :)) (or Indo-European but different from the
> Greco-Latino-Germanic center :)) ).
In truth, Indo-Aryan is the center, and the European part of Indo-European
is the periphery. The I-E languages would be impoverished indeed
if the Asian languages in it did not exist; we would probably never have
discovered I-E as a language.
--
John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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