--- In cybalist@..., naga_ganesan@... wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > Dear Naga,
> >
VA: See also -
"German linguists played an important role in the development of
Indo-European scholarship, and as early as the mid-nineteenth century
Jacob Grimm was to explain the distribution of various sound changes
by referring to the ethnic character of the speakers. Gustaf Kossina
(1858 - 1931) whose principal work, Die Herkunft der Germanen,
published in 1911, became a key text in Nazi Germany, provided an
important ideological plank for territorial expansion. He argued that
specifically Germanic material culture could be identified in
archaeological sites and where such material was found this was
evidence of the original extent of Germany."[page 4]
BLENCH Roger. 1997. General Introduction. Pages 1 - 17 of "Archaeology
and Language I - Theoretical and Methodological Considerations, ed. by
Matthew Spriggs and Roger Blench. Routledge: London/New York