Re: Affects of immigrant communities in language change

"Regardless, I believe we are largely in agreement?"

In the sense that a North-Central European (post-Anatolic) homeland is
more satisfying, yes.

At the same time, Marija Gimbutas' theories remain to be disproven;
most certainly, the linguistic aspect of her theories have to be
successfully challenged before a NC European homeland can be
successfully asserted. The three 'Kurgan waves' cannot be disputed, of
course, nor the military nature of these waves; we are only
questioning what the 'Kurganish' language was.

My objection to Gimbutas' theories (and this is a BIG objection) is
that it does not address the phenomenon of language-replacement
adequately. Too many people have to speak too pure a form of PIE too
early in too many places for the Gimbutas model to work.

Putting it in South Poland comfortably fits what we see later. The
further distance the daughters move, and more adstratal languages they
encounter, the more the breakup of PIE progresses.