Re: [tied] Anatolian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...> wrote:
>
> >http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/Papers/81.2nakhleh.pdf
>
> > Looking at their original tree Fig 7 I counted 5 CONTINUOUS nodes to
> > IIr from the root. MORE THAN ANY OTHER BRANCH. What that means is the
> > "PIE homeland" was in the Indian Subcontinent. They could to have
> > moved the shortest distance to preserver such continuity.
>
> > M. Kelkar
> ***********
> First, I'd like to thank Mr. Kelkar for bringing the Nakhleh et
> al. papers to our attention. The combination of advanced graphing
> theory and solid linguistic input (as it appears to me as a nonexpert
> in both fields)is most impressive, and I've got them bookmarked for
> much closer study.
> But the deduction in the paragraph quoted above seems staggeringly
> illogical. If I'm missing something, please explain.
> If the most nodes from the root reaches the branch closest to the
> homeland (and might an Iranian find a slightly different location?),
> then the next closest is Balto-Slavic, then Germanic, then
> Greek-Armenian, Albanian, Italo-Celtic, and the farthest
> Tocharian-Armenian.
> Interesting geography!
> Dan

You are most welcome Mr. Milton! The above observation was made in
connection to the following paper:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/CPHL/RWT02.pdf

Referring to Fig 7 there are five nodes to IIr. So IIr has preserved
five states from the root (PIE). So IIr must have travelled the
shortest distance to have such continuity. The same argument can be
advanced for Balto Slavic also.

However Balto Slavic has many contact edges that IIr does not. This
could only be possible if the homeland was in the Indian subcontinent.

Fig 10-14 below:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/Papers/81.2nakhleh.pdf

Further, Fig 1 of the first link is the most interesting. Vedic has
BOTH kinds of words for hand; kar and hasta. Therefor the
indeterminate node (the second * from the top in Fig 1) must be
resolved in favor of Vedic. So that * will change to 1 and the 2 will
change to 1 consequently, making Vedic the most continuous (with the
maximum number of 1's) from the root.

M. Kelkar