Re: [tied] Re: Grimm's Law is about to expire (Collinge 1985, p. 26

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 47912
Date: 2007-03-16

On 2007-03-16 00:11, mkelkar2003 wrote:

> Agreed. Let us start over again. Gramkrildze proposed the glottalic
> theory to get the homeland moved to eastern Anatolia. Good for him!

The validity (or invalidity) of the glottalic theory doesn't depend on
the homeland location. Tamaz Gamkrelidze _believes_ PIE came from
somewhere close to the Caucasus, and therefore, by way of gathering
circumstantial evidence, tries to make the reconstruction look
typologicaly similar to languages such as his native Georgian (as if we
knew with certainty where the ancestor of Kartvelian was spoken in PIE
times!). In fact, however, the phonological system of a language is a
piece of _internal linguistic_ evidence not to be lightly interpreted in
geographical or historical terms. A language with ejectives could have
been spoken anywhere, just as a language without any ejectives could
have been spoken on the Iranian Plateau.

> What should MY PIE stops be in order to make India (Pakistan and
> Bangaldesh) as its homeland?

I'm afraid I can't help you in your predicament. See above on the
essential lack of connection.

Piotr