Re: [tied] Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European

Thanks Miguel,

A funny idea comes to my mind:

do you think that, for example, a linguist who would have studied Indo-European enough could "speak" with an individual of this "indo-european tribe", if, he came back in time 7000 years ago? Is the research in this linguistic field so far as to enable it?

 

Thanks

 

Sacha Ghozzi

Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:08:33 +0000, ghozzis <ghozzis@...> wrote:

>Hello everybody,
>Does anyone know if the Proto-Indo-European has been fully
>reconstructed yet? Not only vocabulary, but grammar too? In other
>words, is it possible to "learn" Proto-Indo-European, as one could
>learn chinese or italian?

It isn't, and it never will.  Proto-Indo-European was spoken several
millennia ago, and although it survives in a way by having developed into
the modern Indo-European languages, part of the information (phonology,
lexicon, grammar, syntax) has been irrecoverably lost along the way.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...


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