Re: [tied] Re: The PCT of Indo-European origins

From: Petusek
Message: 37086
Date: 2005-04-11

Dear Francesco,
 
Bedr^ich Hrozny' was one of the first people (or the very first person) to find Hittite an IE language. However, this great merit of his was corrupted by his later crazy claims. Moreover, I know of several great scientists here in the Czech Republic who have discredited themselves in a very similar way. One of them, being a renown mathematician and physician, started to claim he was communicating with the Aliens just a few years after he'd retired. Someone's former merits may and may not guarantee his potential future merits, I'm afraid :-(
 
Pet'usek
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From: alex
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The PCT of Indo-European origins

Francesco Brighenti wrote:
> Until recently he was president of _Atlas Linguarum Europae_ (ALE)
> 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


Dear Francesco, do I am wrong or -soo far I remember- Mr Alinei is one
who sustains the Hungarian language is deriving from Etruscian too.
Please read here about:

http://www.studiolum.com/etruszk/


Of course one has his doubts about someone's ideas when one reads such
articles.

Alex




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