Re: [tied] Greek+Slavic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:

> I think it's not at all questionable that IE was not a
> unified language. Every language has dialects (except maybe those

that are

> spoken in only one village and similar cases) and so did IE. And

it's not

> at all strange that dialects have some different words, slightly

different

> morphology etc.

But do we know that more than one dialect participated in the
expansion of IE into the daughter languages? Can we know that the
dialects of PIE did not just die out without affecting the development
of a single norm that was the only one to be continued? If the IE
dialects just disappeared without leaving traces in the IE we have
come to know they are of no interest to us. How does one decide what
picture to imagine?

Jens