Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages

On May 28, 11:49 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 28 May 2007 20:25:23 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:1180409123.260340.6620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
sci.lang:

On May 28, 1:41 pm, Darkstar <darkstar...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

As for, Beja some researches (Hetzron, 1980) even doubt it's part of
AA family at all. [This fact is reflected in numerals also, indicating
Beja's proximity to Nilo-Saharan.]
What is Hetzron 1980?

Possibly 'The limits of Cushitic', Sprache und Geschichte in
Afrika 2.7-162. However, what I see on the web indicates
that Darkstar has it wrong: Hetzron wanted to remove it from
Cushitic and make it an independent branch of AA.

Gosh, I haven't looked at that in years ....

Robert was one of the AAists who brought a different scheme for AA
every year to NACAL (North American Conference on Afroasiatic
Linguistics). The many conflicting proposals simply show how elusive
the data are -- for all but two of the families, we have nothing
that's more than 200 years old (and that's a very generous estimate).

.