Re: Uralic Continuity Theory (was: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white peo

I don't know about linguistics but in my discipline
Wiley is not a highly respected publishing house. It's
better than Mellen, but not by much. It's a vanity
press in literature and I've seen a lot of garbage
published by them.


--- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@>
> > wrote:
> >
> > [I'm allowing this through as a discussion of the
> Uralic Continuity
> Theory', not as a discussion of AIT/OIT, which has
> been reclosed.
> I've therefore taken the liberty of changing the
> subject title. -
> Richard.]
> >
> > > At any rate, I believe I have shown enough
> possible ways to
> > > reasonably reconcile the lexical exchange
> between the eastern IE
> > > languages and Uralic with an Indian Urheimat
> scenario (Elst 2000)."
> > >
> > > M. Kelkar
> > > ==========
> > >
> > > It does not account for Mordvin vrgas being a
> Sanscrit word
> > > not an iranian word.
> > >
> > > We are not dealing with PIE / Uralic lexical
> exchanges.
> > > But specific languages to specific languages.
> > > This is why your approach is basically flawed.
> > >
> > > Arnaud
> > =============
> > There is a Uralic Continuity Theory which would
> elminate the need for
> > migrations of Uralic languages and by extention IE
> languages
> >
> > M. K.
> > =============
> >
> > The theory is highly dubious in the first place.
> > And can't account for Samoyedic and Ugric
> positions.
> > But I understand that your *absurd* claim for
> autochthonous
> > finds some support in another *absurd* claim that
> > Uralic comes from Ukraine.
> > This theory makes the same absurd reverse split
> order
> > as yours.
> > Finnish is the end of the tree not the start.
> >
> > Arnaud
> > ===========
> >
>
> Whose claims are absurd will be decided. For now,
> it is clear that
> the traditionalist Uralist and IEnist are
> piggybacking on each other.
> I posted earlier about a book by Angela Marcantonia
> from a mainstream
> publisher(Wiley?). And that was promptly trashed. I
> would like to
> reiterate the position of Greigoriyev (1998) that
> there is not a trace
> of steppe culture in both Iran and India and this
> archaeologist has
> used this to promote an non steppe homeland in
> Armenia (Gamkradizhe
> and Ivanaov 1984 proposal).
>
> M. Kelkar
>
>

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