From: alex
Message: 37081
Date: 2005-04-11
> Until recently he was president of _Atlas Linguarum Europae_ (ALE)Dear Francesco, do I am wrong or -soo far I remember- Mr Alinei is one
> at UNESCO. Some of his main linguistic contributions which were
> instrumental in creating the Paleolithic Continuity Theory (PCT)
> were those about the tendency toward conservation of languages as
> opposed to the theories of "biological laws" of linguistic change
> and the method of lexical self-dating. Alinei and his work group
> have basically argued that the distribution of the IE family of
> languages is a reflex of the initial Paleolithic settlement of Homo
> sapiens in Eurasia from Africa.
> Kindest regards,
> Francesco Brighenti