Re: [tied] Excerpts from Aryan Idols by Stefan Arvidsson (2006)

--- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

> Any comments on the following paragraph?
>
> M. Kelkar
>
> "Most debated is the Russian structuralist
> Prince Niklaj Trubestkoj (1890-1938), [should be

Nikolaj Trubetskoj- GK] who argues in

> the famous
> article
> "Gedanken uber das Indogermanenproblem" (1936)
> although it is
> possible
> that the similarities between the Indo-European
> languages are due to
> a
> common origin, this hypothesis is not necessary. He
> found that notion
> of an original language (the family tree model) more
> romantic than
> scientific and imagined that the genetic
> classification might be
> replaced with a structuralist one (Arvidsson 2006,
> p.296)."

*****GK: I'll let the linguists handle this one. If it
parallels Trubetskoy's "Eurasian" historiosophy, that
shouldn't be too difficult.******















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