From: Alexander Stolbov
Message: 22405
Date: 2003-05-30
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: [tied] Re:Status of Hittite
> I'd argue
> that _both_ Anatolian and Tocharian stand outside the "core IE"
> cluster.
This could be proved easily if one convincingly demonstrate:
firstly, an innovation shared by all IE languages but Anatolian,
secondly, an innovation shared by all IE languages but Anatolian and
Tocharian.
Could you please formulate these innovations?
On the other hand, one should be ready to prove that all the common features
of Tocharian and, say, Italic (or Celtic) are just shared archaisms or
coinciding results of independent developments. This task seems to be
harder.
Alexander