[tied] Re: Grimm's Law is about to expire (Collinge 1985, p. 267, T

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-03-18 16:58, mkelkar2003 wrote:
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> > "For others, this was by no means an acceptable position. Some,
> > usually the linguists, argued in favour of strict separation of
> > particularities of language and matters external to them..."
>
> Of course this is the position adopted by practically all modern
> linguists. We study PIE phonology, morphology etc., not the colour of
> PIE eyes.
>
> > the stammbaum model swept it away.
>
> Swept _what_ away?
>
> Piotr
>

Swept the convergence model away in favor of the tree model meaning
Koerner (n.d.), "the linguists, argued in favour of strict separation of

> > particularities of language and matters external to them.."

This is evident in the reconstructed PIE. This endeavor has no doubt
been a great intellectual achaivement but from a practical standpoint
it assumes that an airtight compartment called PIE was dropped
somewhere at A point in time from outer space. The compartment opened
and people with some unique physical characteristics that no one
wants to talk about today, fanned out in a CENTRIFUGAL manner. The
presumed centrifugality of expansion puts India at a disadvantage
because of its geographical location.

M. Kelkar