Re: Grimm's Law is about to expire (Collinge 1985, p. 267, Thundy 1

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> > http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/LangIdeo/Koerner/Koerner.html
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> > This general non-recognition of ideological consideratins playing a
> > role in linguistics and its methodology is deplorable not simply
> > because of the lack of social consciousness and sense of
> > intellectual responsibility which this attitude among scholars
> > reveals, but also because linguists can be shown to have been
> > particularly prone to cater, consciously or not, to ideas and
> > interests outside their discipline and, as history shows, allowed at
> > times their findings to be used for purposes they were not
> > originally intended or simply joined up with certain trends."
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> > "Although it is obvious from his own account that a considerable
> > number of authors had ideological, including at times religious and
> > maybe even political, agenda, Mallory does not raise the issue of
> > ideology, quite in line with traditional scholarly discourse in
> > which this aspect of scientific endeavour has been regularly
> > ignored."
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> Why do you say that?

I don't. That is a cut and paste from Koerner. Sorry for the missing
quotation marks at the top end. I was born and brought up in India,
and I support the Indian Homeland Theory. According to Demoule (1980),

"we have seen that one primarily places the IE's (Indo-Europeans) in
the north if one is German….in the east if one is Russian, and in the
middle if, being Italian or Spanish, one has no chance of competing
for the privilege (as quoted by Lal 2005, p.64)."

Lal, B.B.(2005), The Homeland of the Aryans: Evidence of Rigvedic
Flora and Fauna & Archaeology, New Delhi: Aryan Books International.

M. Kelkar




I don't think anyone on Cybalist doesn't

> recognize the deplorable fact that ideological considerations play a
> role in everything you say on this linguistics list snd also that you
> are prone to cater, consciously or not, to ideas and interests outside
> that discipline. Maybe someone should raise that issue?
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> Torsten
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