--- Sergejus Tarasovas <
S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski"
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > I agree that on the whole Slavic is more coherent
> and has been more
> > innovative than Baltic. /.../. This
> > would make Slavic just a large and aberrant
> subbranch of Baltic. I
> > wonder what Sergei thinks of this idea (which
> recurs in linguistic
> > discussions).
>
> ST: I sympathize to this model, though I wouldn't
die
> for it./etc/
****GK: A quote from "Hidronimia Ukrajiny...," p.66:
"V.P. Petrov, in a paper read in December 1965,
advanced the thesis that the hydronyms of the river
Ros' basin, which may be interpreted by materials of
the contemporary Baltic languages, are not in reality
an attestation of the spread of Baltic ethnic
territory into the forest steppe zone up to the border
of the steppe, but merely an indication of the lexical
fund of the language of the local population of this
basin in prehistoric times, a fund which partly
disappeared in the Nadros'ja while being preserved in
the Baltic languages. The views of V.P. Petrov are
close to the position of V.M. Toporov on the question
of the "Baltic" elements in the hydronymic and
toponymic of a number of territories to the West of
the Vistula" (with a reference to T's article in Acta
Univ. Carol. Philol., 1966, 1-3. Slavica Pragensia,
n.8, pp. 255-272.******
>
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