From: tgpedersen
Message: 45516
Date: 2006-07-25
>Exactly.
> If the Indo-hittite hypothesis is correct, and the time
> span between indo-hittite and the rest-ie is great enough,
> the simple thematic class could simply be new verbs made
> in since the indo-hittite time and simple thematic be the
> prefered way of making new verbs since that time. Many of
> these verbs could also be loans from substrate languages
> or culturally exchanged material.
>
> Or put another way: The lack of the simple thematic class
> in Anatolian is one of several indications of the correctness
> of the indo-hittite hypotesis.