From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53251
Date: 2008-02-15
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister____________________________________________________________________________________
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > Would you mind posting this information from
> Johanna
> > Nichols you refer to? I assume J. is for Johanna
> not
> > for Jocser, right?
>
> Also see a summary of Nichols 1997 from Elst 2000.
>
> "More promising though far more complicated is the
> analysis by Nichols
> (1997) of the transmission of loans in and around
> Mesopota�mia, also
> taking the three Caucasian families into account. Of
> the latter, the
> two northern ones show little lexical exchange with
> IE, which pleads
> against a Pontic homeland. On the basis of these
> "loanword
> trajectories" through different languages, esp. of
> Mesopotamian
> cultural terms including those discussed above,
> Nichols (1997:1�27)
> finds that in the 4th millennium BC,
> "Abkhaz-Circassian and
> Nakh-Daghes�tanian are in approximately their
> modern locations, and
> Kartvelian and IE are to the east". More precisely,
> Kartvelian is
> "likely to have emanated from somewhere to the
> south-east of the
> Caspian" while the "locus of IE was farther east and
> farther north"
> (1997:128),-- which can only be Bactria.
>
> Whether Bactria was the homeland in its own right or
> merely a
> launching-pad for Indians trekking west remains to
> be seen. But if
> Nichols' findings, as yet based on a limited corpus
> of data, could be
> corroborated further, it would generally help the
> OIT."
>
> M. Kelkar
>
> >
> >
>
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