Re: New Indo-European etymological databases online (Brill website)

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 66730
Date: 2010-10-09




From: "johnvertical@..." <johnvertical@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 9, 2010 1:47:40 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: New Indo-European etymological databases online (Brill website)

 

> At 9:49:29 AM on Saturday, October 9, 2010, Francesco
> Brighenti wrote:
>
> > The best we can hope for in the future is an individial
> > pay-per-view access to the databases, which, as is now
> > clear, will be soon removed from the old IEED Project
> > website run by the Leiden University (at least the greater
> > part of them, and particularly those which have been
> > published as books).
>
> At the time I did it only for convenience, but I'm now very
> glad that I downloaded Matasovic's entire Celtic
> etymological database, which is now gone. I see that
> Derksen's Slavic inherited lexicon and Beekes' Greek have
> also disappeared, and I expect that Derksen's Baltic
> inherited lexicon and Lubotsky's Indo-Aryan inherited
> lexicon won't be around much longer.
>
> Brian

Gah, this is terrible. At least the Russians have some backup:
http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?root=config

John Vertical

And the Russians don't enforce foreign copyrights very rigorously. Maybe Kirill/Cyril B. can come to the rescue and post everything in Russia. Or if we're lucky, we have a Chinese member.