M. Kelkar:
> "There are at least two scenarios that might have
> given rise to the peculiar pattern of data
> involving Germanic. One is that the diversification
> of the IE family must be modeled at least in part as
> a network rather than a tree (as discussed in the
> previous section), (p. 52)."
I thought that this was long ago understood. A tree
is merely a loose representation of the
interrelationships of the IE dialects (or, of any
language or language group). It doesn't show
isoglosses well like, say, the distribution of
mediopassive *-r.
Thus the development of the "isogloss map" created
decades ago, which is the "network" that appears to
be sought after in this quote.
Who are these people? COBOL programmers :)
= gLeN
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