Re: Interesting pre-Greek article

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:09:47 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
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> I've just started reading this: http://www.ieed.nl/ied/pdf/pre-greek.pdf
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> which comes from: http://www.ieed.nl/index2.html
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> compliments of the inimitable gLeN gordon of cybalist
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I could read only the first few pages, but I also noticed the reference to
R.A. Brown (1985 ?)

I found the term "Pre-Greek" confusing, though. Some historical linguists
use "Pre-" for the result of Internal Reconstruction as opposed to "Proto-
", the result of the Comparative Method. While I suspect "Pre-Greek" is
already well-established, wouldn't something like "Ante-Greek" have been
better for a non-ancestor of Greek?

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