--- "tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...>" If I were
to hold on to the
> hypothesis that loss of
> laryngeals is caused by conquered substrate, I'd
> have to claim that
> the AfroAsiatic languages were spread by dispersion,
> the IE ones by
> conquest.
*****GK:I think it all depends on circumstances
doesn't it? Far be it for me to deny that IE were
peaceful "internationalists". But the original "kurgan
warrior onslaught" ought really to be put to rest
permanently as an all-explaining theory. There is
enough evidence available to suggest that the
hypothetical adoption of IE by various "substrates"
would have been the result of "imitation" and
"adaptation" or "peaceful assimilation" rather than
"conquest". Obviously there WERE conquests. But not
everywhere and at all times.*****
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