From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61738
Date: 2008-11-19
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>Then perhaps, as the Powerhouse of Poznan, you can find some grant money to start the project. In the US, linguistiss is divvied between NEH, which is almost broke and NSF, but they're into linguistics as it helps encryption. So check to and see if the EU offers money. You could argue that it's cheaper to use Eastern European professors but I'm sure you should be able to finagle a few million euros.
> Subject: Re: [tied] *y-n,W- "subordinate"?
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 2:49 PM
> On 2008-11-19 16:43, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > So, then, how close is the Leiden IE Project to an
> undated Pokorny?
>
> You mean updated? What we need is a completely new
> dictionary of PIE
> roots and etymologies. Sadly, there is no such project in
> sight. The LIV
> contains only verb roots and the derived verb forms (many
> of them
> doubtful, quite a few evidently misreconstructed), but at
> least the
> phonology is up to date and some (thought not all) new
> insights
> concerning verb morphology are taken into account. A good
> starting
> point, perhaps, but still far from something that could
> replace Pokorny
> as the standard reference book for the field.
>
> Piotr