Re: The progressive emergence of "Germanic"

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From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:28 AM
Subject: [tied] The progressive emergence of "Germanic"


>
>
> The story, while it does not begin here, certainly
> passes through here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age
>
> That's very roughly my scenario, very close to
> traditional views, though perhaps differing in minor
> particulars. The solution lies somewhere in this area
> of Elbe--central Scandinavia incl. so.Sweden--south
> shore of the Baltic to the Vistula. Odinist and
> Asiatic kookeries are ruled out.
>
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So according to your own cookery,
Germanic became Germanic because it was Germanic and it never stopped to be
what it was.
It originates where it never stopped to be.
Nobody peopled North Europe before IE speakers invaded this area.
This is the traditionalist view.
Kossina's view.

What about numerous substratic and strange words in Germanic Torsten and I
point at ?
What about the structure of German dialects which indicates an Eastern
intrusion ?
What about the absence of isoglosses with Italic and Celtic ?
and numerous isoglosses with eastern IE languages ?

You are the historian of standstill.

Arnaud
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