"A Semantic Approach To Vennemann's "Great Puzzle

A SEMANTIC APPROACH TO VENNEMANN'S "GREAT PUZZLE" VIRGIL STROHMEYER Yerevan - In the latest volume of The Annual of Armenian Linguistics ( 1 996), John Harkness has once again raised the spectre of *dw>yerk in Armenian, and his long review of the literature is more than adequate although some surprising errors in the citations, e.g. that qp4?'b means 20 or that Pedersen is spelled Pederson, make one question his control of the Armenian material. Harkness' article is essentially a rejoiner to Kortlandt's (1989), which in turn was a response to Vennemann ( 1986). * This vexed question has long troubled

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