Re: [tied] Re: Did IE languages spread before farming?

But that theory is absurd. It out-Renfrews Renfrew in terms of misusing historical-linguistic arguments and inflating time-depths to impossible proportions. Anti-migrationism may be a salutary response to dogmatic migrationism, but its extreme forms are less salutary. It only shows that complete amateurs had better not tackle linguistic problems. The authors' attitude seems to be that since everybody speeks a language, everybody is a natural linguist and is entitled to speculate about matters linguistic in public. Note that the bibliography does not contain a single linguistic book apart fom Otte's own oeuvre and -- incredibly -- Swadesh's _Origin and Diversification of Languages_, as if glottochronology were a generally respected tool in modern historical linguistic.

Piotr

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From: S.Kalyanaraman

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Subject: [tied] Re: Did IE languages spread before farming?

--- In cybalist@......, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@......> wrote: > > > Why not? Did IE start from a vacuum? What was the state of language prior to the last glaciation? > > Meaning when? You can't do IE linguistics with reference to pre- proto-proto-IE times. Meaning, from Younger Dryas (around 12,800-11,400 cal. y.a.). Note that the thread started with this URL where there are more details: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/Indo2.html

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