Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

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From: "gknysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:26 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Alexander Stolbov" <astolbov@...>
> wrote:
> In all probability Slavs and Balts parted
> > earlier than in the second quarter of the 1st mill. BC.
>
> *****GK: The argument for this position can only be a linguistic one.
> Neither history nor archaeology support it.


What do you mean here?
1) History and archeology have any arguments against it. If so please share
them.
2) There are no direct historical and archaeological evidences and we must
relay here only on linguistic arguments.


> So what is the linguistic
> argument, and how do you relate it to time and space?*****

I don't know what glottochronology suggest here. Does anybody know?

However there are some thoughts which allow to belive that this
_probability_ is not low.
The