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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Proto-????
Message-ID: <1995Jan9.224342.4088@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 22:43:42 GMT
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In article <smryanD257JI.9Iv@netcom.com> smryan@netcom.com (Player) writes:
>Have Proto-whatever been developed for other families besides
>IE?

Yes, but no other is as fully fleshed-out; some are little more than
lists of reconstructed forms for cognate lexical items.

Can anyone out there list those families for which a plausible "proto-
grammar" has been reconstructed?  I've read one for Finno-Ugric and I've
heard that one exists for Proto-Semitic, though I've never seen it
described.  References would be nice if it's not too much bother.

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