Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

From: tgpedersen
Message: 59958
Date: 2008-09-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
wrote:
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> Dear George,
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@> wrote:
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> > --- On Wed, 9/10/08, Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@> wrote:
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> > > [citing a historical linguistics hypothesis advanced in Tsung-
> > > tung Chang's paper at
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> > > http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp007_old_chinese.pdf ]
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> > > ... during the third millennium BCE, a Proto-Indo-European
> > > vocabulary showing a Germanic structure became dominant in
> > > Old Chinese, ...
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> > Pre- or post-Grimm shift Germanic, acc. to CTT?
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> You should better go through the lexical comparisons offered in the
> paper to better evaluate this question.

I don't think you are supposed to do that. Brian says you have to
criticize it yourself first, if you want to be a real scientist.


Torsten