lpetrich
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John Bengtson then goes into detail about Euskaro-Caucasian.
Lexical: "ear", "tongue", "fire", "star", 'dog"
Grammatical:
Then some Basque - NC sound correspondences.
Lexical: "ear", "tongue", "fire", "star", 'dog"
Grammatical:
- Oblique stem marker -ri-
- Basque has fossilized class markers: *be-/*bi-, *e-/*i-, *o-/*u-, *a-, productive in NC languages. Answering Larry Trask's 1996 question "Pre-Basque clearly had an extraordinarily large proportion of lexical items beginning with a vowel, and ... only a very few word-initial consonants. Why is this so?"
- Verbs: participial suffix -tV (Basque, Archi)
- Ablaut: *o ~ *a
Then some Basque - NC sound correspondences.