From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 17168
Date: 2002-12-14
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From: <matt62@...>
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Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Does Koenraad Elst Meet Hock´s Challenge?
>
> Piotr: I want to emphasise that what militates against an Indian
> homeland India is the internal structure of IE and the historically
> attested geographical configuration of related branches -- _not_ the
> location of India, which would not be an obstacle per se.
>
> Hi Piotr,
> Could you please explain what you mean here a little further,
> perhaps by way of an example or two ?
> Thanks.
Well, I believe the rest of my posting consisted of an explanation, with some examples. If India is the IE homeland, it's difficult to propose a viable historical scenario that accounts for the distribution of all the branches in time and space _and_ the relations between them.
Piotr