Re: Fate of Conventional PIE's Relatives (was: Stacking up on standa

From: Tavi
Message: 69262
Date: 2012-04-06

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>
> > And finally, one of these paleo-dialects
> > underwent a rapid expansion in the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age,
> > becoming a superstrate to the other varieties.
>
> What sort of evidence persuades you that it was a superstrate, rather
than the other varieties becoming substrates?
>
If a variety A is a superstrate of another variety B, then B is a
substrate of A, or perhaps I'm mistaken?