[tied] Temematic (Was Re: Snorri on "Odin's journey")

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> > >
> > Frederik Kortlandt, An Indo-European substratum in
> > Slavic, in
> > Bammesberger & Vennemann, Languages in Prehistoric
> > Europe,
> > Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg
> >
> > The original discovery is due to Georg Holzer:
> > Entlehnungen aus einer
> > bisher unbekannten indogermanischen Sprache in
> > Urslavischen und
> > Urbaltischen (Wien: Akademie der Wissenschaften,
> > 1989)
>
> *****GK: Is there a difference of opinion between
> Holzer and Kortlandt, with the former holding that
> this "language X" (Temematic?) influenced both Baltic
> and Slavic (or did Holzer mean "Balto-Slavic" i.e.
> before the differentiation?) while Kortlandt holds
> that it only influenced Slavic?*****
>
>

Kortlandt:
'... Holzer ... substratum ... Baltic and Slavic...'

' We must therefore reckon with the definite possibility of
a "Temematic" substratum in Slavic, and perhaps in Baltic'

after a discussion of particular sound developments in Temematic:
' These hypothetical changes fit the earliest Slavic developments
after the end of the Balto-Slavic period very nicely (cf Kortlandt:
On the history of Slavic nasal vowels, Indogermanische Forschungen
84, 264-265, 1979 and Od praindoevropskog jezika do slovenskog
(Fonolos^ki razvoj), Zbornik za Filologiju i Lingvistiku 32/2, 46-
47). We may therefore wonder if the "Temematic" substratum provoked
the earliest developments of Slavic as a separate language, before
the Scythian expansions took place.'

Torsten