Re: Does every language family contain one with "ma-" "da-" "ta-" words for parents?
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 12, 2006, 14:49 |
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Yahya Abdal-Aziz wrote at 2006-05-12 23:54:23 (+1000)
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
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> > I googled for "jakobson mama papa" and found
> > a PDF treating the subject at length:
> > <http://tinyurl.com/7pf6n>.
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> Impressively well-written paper, easy to understand
> and quite easy to be seduced by its conclusions. How-
> ever, I wasn't able to deduce its author ... !?
The late Larry Trask, according to the link here:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/1-4-1.html