Re: IE & Uralic

--- ualarauans <ualarauans@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > GK: The most interesting recent theory is that
> of
> > Shchukin. He thinks the Slavs self-constituted ca.
> > 50-250 AD in the East Baltic areas north of the
> > Prypjat' and Desna. One of the thoughts I had in
> this
> > connection is that the significant so-called
> "Gothic"
> > words present in Old Common Slavic might have
> actually
> > been the contribution of the Bastarnae (this is
> yet
> > unverified).
>
> May I hear some linguistic arguments for that, if
> you please?

****GK: I don't know that there are any, given that we
only have a handful of "Bastarnian" words. The
argument is largely historical. The assumption is that
Gothic and Bastarnian would have been linguistically
fairly close, and that Bastarnians interacted with
East Balts and Proto-Slavs for centuries before the
arrival of the Goths. BTW my mistake about the
"Stavani" (I'm working exclusively from memory): not
Pliny's but Ptolemy's. Thus ca. 140/150 AD****

>
> Ualarauans
>
> > Shchukin accepts the view that Bastarnae
> > were an important component of Slavic
> > ethnogenesis.
>
>

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