Re: [tied] Anatolian

mkelkar2003 wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Grzegorz Jagodzinski"
> <grzegorj2000@...> wrote:

>>
>> The model according to which that one, relatively uniform PIE
> language split
>> into many many dialects, equally related with each other, and which
>> finally formed nothing but historic attested languages, is
>> incorrect. icts
> your fluid model.
>>
>
> These views are in line with those of Antoine Meillet. There was never
> a PIE language and hence no sense looking for a "PIE homeland."
>
> M. Kelkar

Not exactly... the described model is false because it assumes the false
correspondence "one modern language = one PIE dialect". I can clearly see
something different. There was one PIE dialect (and PIE homeland of course,
inspite of some phantastic views), and it split into some dialects, some of
them split into some dialects, and so on. So, the model of IE divergence is
tree-like, not bush-like.

Where and how to find the IE homeland is a separate problem which has
nothing or very little to do with this.

Grzegorz J.



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