Re: triconsonantal roots

On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 01:46  AM, Muke Tever wrote:
> Well, "Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic" (PAA being ancestor of
> Proto-Semitic) lists slightly over a thousand *bi*consonantal roots
> (using
> the basic five vowels, short and long; two or three tones, and
> forty-something consonants), from which the familiar Semitic
> triconsonantal roots were derived through various processes (most of
> the PAA consonants could be used as derivational morphemes).
> *Muke!
TONES?!
You're saying they reconstruct Proto-Afro-Asiatic with TONES?!
That rocks!  (in more than the tonal-language-as-music sense) :P
Where can i find more info about this?


-Stephen (Steg)
  "...and on my deathbed
   i will pray to the gods and the angels...
   to anyone who will take me to heaven
   to a place i recall
   i was there so long ago
   the sky was bruised
   the wine was bled
   and there you led me on..."
      ~ 'like a stone' by audioslave

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