--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> No, it isn't a typo, I saw such an opinion expressed somewhere by
Henning Andersen, I think (the source is out of my reach it at the
moment, so I can't verify what I vaguely recall). By "the contrary",
do you mean that there is a closer genetic relationship between
_West_ Baltic and Slavic?
Yes, I think Slavic may be treated as an aberrant West Baltic
language, or at least as something being equally distant from both
West and East Baltic.
> The best starting point, I suppose, is to assume that East Baltic,
West Baltic and Slavic are three roughly coordinate daughters of
Proto-Balto-Slavic, and then try to falsify that null hypothesis by
pointing to common innovations.
The glove is taken up. :)
Sergei