Re: [tied] Greek+Slavic

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:
>
>> Anyway, I'm pretty close to those who think that
>> Proto-Slavic was just an innovative Baltic dialect [...].
>
> One of its innovations is then very odd, consisting as it does in
> digging up the verbal forms of the third person dual and plural from
> their place in oblivion.

But 3. sg. = 3. pl. is hardly a Proto-Baltic innovation... Even in Old
Lith. you have e~sti and esą~. Anyway, one could imagine Slavic being a
"Baltic" dialects which preserved the distinction.
By saying Slavic is just a Baltic dialect, I do not mean to propose that
we can derive Slavic from Lithuanian or something like that, ofcourse. I'm
just putting down the projected importance of Slavic in the past.

Mate