From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61787
Date: 2008-11-21
> From: alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...>I'm sure American linguists, (but not amateurs), could get a collaborative NEH or ACLS grants to get semesters off. European universities must have similar grants.
> Subject: Re: [tied] *y-n,W- "subordinate"?
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 7:00 AM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
>
> Piotr, why not to organize the construction of such a
> dictionary, on
> this forum, under GNU Public License or something
> similar...
>
> After the discussions, on each root, you could organize a
> team of
> writers & re-viewers etc...and a documents will be
> publish on the
> File Section
>
> For sure some good organziations rules should be put in
> place either
> for the book structure and/or for the working process
> BUT I don't think not to have volunteers here...
>
> I would be one of them (of course if I could help)
>
> BR,
> Marius