Re: [tied] Greek+Slavic

Would one PIE dialect be continued in

> the Rigvedic dialect and Luvian, another in that of the

Atharvaveda

> and Hittite? Or was one form high-style archaic/archaizing and the
> other one that of the common folk and their ill-behaving children,
> or perhaps of women? I wouldn't know, but such variations would of
> course live side by side and show interaction.

One case in point (whether "be" is 'really' helf-thematic):
Dutch inflects:
ik ben
jij bent (org. 2nd pl.)
hij is

Afikaans inflects:
ik is
jy is
hy is


In the 19th century institutions the Dutch church in South Africa
used 'proper' Dutch, while everyone else spoke Afrikaans.


Torsten