Odp: [tied] Desatemized Germanic

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 6411
Date: 2001-03-07

There are many "phylogenetic" proposals (e.g. recent cladistic models computer-generated by Don Ringe) with Germanic and Balto-Slavic as sister clades (the nearest relatives of each other). Such models typically regard satemisation as an innovation that happened somewhere up the evolutionary path (in the common ancestor of Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, etc.), only to be later cancelled in Germanic. Of course what you get from a computer depends on what you feed into it -- here, on your selection of "characters" to be analysed. Any bias in this selection is likely to be reflected in the results. I don't personally regard 100% "desatemisation" of an originally satemic langauge (combined with the mysterious reintroduction of labiovelars to boot) as a realistically imaginable process.
 
Piotr
 
 
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Data: 7 marca 2001 12:29
Temat: [tied] Desatemized Germanic


Torsten:
Now this proposed "desatemisation" has got me curious. Who said that
and would you give a sketch of how they think that happened?