ProtoLanguage-Timetable.htm

Ojibway Songs

TIMETABLE OF PROTO-LANGUAGE EVOLUTION


by Patrick C. Ryan

9/16/97

rev.5/7/2008

Tlazoltéotl

based on theory of evolutionary typology of G. A. Klimov, and

on the genetic studies of Luigi Luca and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza







N----------------------------1------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ P

∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞

E----------------------------0----------------------------6----------------------------4-----------------------------1------------------ R

U----------------------------0----------------------------0----------------------------0-----------------------------5------------------ E

T----------------------------,-----------------------------,-----------------------------,------------------------------,------------------ S

R----------------------------0----------------------------0----------------------------0-----------------------------0----------------- E

A----------------------------0----------------------------0----------------------------0-----------------------------0---------------- N

L----------------------------0----------------------------0----------------------------0-----------------------------0---------------- T

NEUTRAL ACTIVE CLASS ERGATIVE
NOMINA -TIVE

?-100,000 BPE

African

100-60,000 BPE

Levantine

60-40,000 BPE

Pontic

40-15,000 BPE

Eurasian

15,000 BPE to 2,000 CE
Nostratic
Africa is separated from the rest of the world by the end of the period Southeast Asia and Australia are separated from Asia and Europe by the end of the period Asia is separated from Europe by the end of the period Northeast Asia and America are separated from Asia by the end of the period Extensive recombination
a limited number of monosyllables in OV and AN constructions combine into CVC roots

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lexical items combine in OV and AN combinations to produce noun definition (definite, indefinite, singular, collective, plural);

and

stress-accent distinguishes momentary and durative relationships

lexical items are added

to words in the form of prefixes (African/Asian) or suffixes (Pontic) as a lexical classification method;

and

formerly distributional nominal lexical items are re-interpreted as secondary verbal aspect (perfective / imperfective) and modal markers

adpositions are developed from OV and AN combinations, enabling nominal inflection

and

explicit specification of the relationship of subordinate clauses;

and

?E prefixed to verbs distinguishes concommitant and non-concommitant time (tense)

an increased consciousness of causality leads to the mandatory expression of causal agency of verbal ideas;

and

Ablaut and vowel-patterning enable nouns and verbs to be finally separated

 no new evolutionary advances in language
ADJECTIVES

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NUMBER

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PRIMARY ASPECTS

 CLASSIFI- CATIONAL COMPOUNDS

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VERBAL INFLECTION

 ADPOSITIONS

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INFLECTIONS

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TENSE

 EXPLICITLY IDENTIFIED CAUSALITY

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SEPARATION OF NOUNS AND VERBS




We do not know when the plateau of neutral-type language (actual communicative speech) was reached.



In the course of the Pontic Period (60-40,000 BPE), the phonology of the main innovating branch of the Proto-Language underwent a massive change from C + E/A/O syllables to Cy a, C (-)a, Cwa, which enabled nouns and verbs to be finally separated through Ablaut and vowel patterning since a specific vowel was no longer needed to identify the word lexically.





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