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- Thu Jan 17, 2019 6:37 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax borrowing
- Replies: 26
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Re: Syntax borrowing
Are South Semitic languages mainly VSO either historically or currently? Also, I'm not sure about the relationship between Semitic and Egyptian Really? Ancient Egyptian looks super Semitic to me. Do you think that's just an artefact of the reconstruction? There are some weird features, though, like...
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 6:16 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax borrowing
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14712
Re: Syntax borrowing
But split ergativity only evolved recently in Indo-Aryan, in the early to mid second millennium, not even reaching unrecognized languages that are considered dialects of Hindi, like Bhojpuri. But one can see the early stage in Pali, and I believe the history of Sanskrit shows it gathering strength....
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 5:45 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 900
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Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
What's the evidence that *h1 didn't survive into Hittite as /ʔ/ word initially?
- Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:25 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: How was the age of the Rigveda (and by extension, the oldest attested form of Sanskrit) determined?
- Replies: 17
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Re: How was the age of the Rigveda (and by extension, the oldest attested form of Sanskrit) determined?
In terms of language, note that the Buddha (c. -500) didn't speak in Sanskrit, but in Magadhi. So classical Sanskrit was already old then... and Vedic Sanskrit is quite a bit more archaic than classical Sanskrit. Isn't the point that he chose to teach in Magadhi (or some pre-Prakrit), rather than i...