I could perhaps answer this question if you
told me more precisely which morphological similarities you have in mind. The
way you put it, it sounds as if Germanic and Balto-Slavic were really very
close morphologically. Cross-linguistic grammatical convergence is certainly
common (whatever your double question mark suggests). For example, there are
many morphological similarities uniting the unrelated or distantly related
languages of the Balkan league (such as Romanian, Bulgarian and Turkish); one
could also invoke examples of Finnic influence on the East Baltic
languages.
Piotr
Dear Piotr,
You have demonstrated with a high convincingness that all my attempts to
reconcile the Germano-Balto-Slavic kinship hypothesis with the phonetical
evidences were too weak. Now, on the ruins of my previous notions, I sincerely
wish to see the reconcilability of the Germano-Balto-Slavic Sprachbund
hypothesis with the morphological evidences. They are the following (I have
taken them from the Cyril's site - Archive 13. Indo-European
Proto-dialects):
1. Genitive sg. -eso in Germanic and Baltic, -ó in Baltic
and Slavic, -osyo in Indo-Iranian, Greek, Armenian vs. -í in
Tocharic, Italic, Celtic, Venetic, Illyrian
2. Instrumental masculine sg. -ó in Germanic, Baltic and
Indo-Iranian
3. Indirect cases sg. & pl. -m- in Germanic and
Balto-Slavic
4. Locative pl. -su / -si in
Germanic, Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian
5. Degrees of comparison in -tero-, -isto- in Germanic,
Indo-Iranian and Greek vs. -samo- in Celtic, Italic
6. Medium voice in -oi / -moi in Germanic,
Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian and Greek vs. -r in Anatolian,
Tocharic, Italic, Celtic, Phrygian
Alexander
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