From: Tavi
Message: 69703
Date: 2012-05-31
>Buit the thing is, how much do mainstream IE studies actually share with
> > All these people (Greenberg, Ruhlen, Bengtson) belong to
> > what I call the "Sapir-Swadesh school", whose main
> > representants are Edward Sapir and Morris Swadesh and
> > which sees Comparative Linguistics as a branch of
> > Anthropology. By contrast, modern IE studies, founded by
> > 19th century's Neogrammarians, are a branch of Classical
> > Phylology
>
> I doubt that there are many modern historical linguists who
> see historical linguistics as anything but a historical
> science in its own right, with roots in anthropology *and*
> philology (among other things).
>