Re: [tied] Baltic-Slavic disintegration ( was: PIE's closest relati

Piotr wrote:

> My personal opinion is that Proto-Baltic (not Proto-_East_-Baltic!) and
> Proto-Balto-Slavic are practically indistinguishable, which means that,
> technically speaking, Slavic _is nested within_ the Baltic clade and the
> group traditionally called "Baltic" (= West Baltic + East Baltic) ought
> to be considered paraphyletic if it were to exclude Slavic.

Does not this mean that Proto-Baltic had to separate at once in 3 parts -
West Baltic, Slavic and East Baltic?
And what about the Golyad' subgroup?

Alexander