GREEK PREHISTORY AND IE (EVIDENCE?)

[Robert Orr]

>JoatSimeon at aol.com
>In a message dated 2/4/00 12:17:35 PM, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>><<>I don't believe that any current theory is that Greek and Sanskrit
>>managed to split-off from PIE in the Ukraine and went their separate ways
>>sharing innovations that are not found in PIE.

>-- that is precisely the current consensus theory.  Both Greek and Sanskrit
>(and Armenian and Phyrgian) belonged to an east-central group of dialects
>within PIE.  They lost contact sometime in the course of Indo-Iranian's
>spread to the east and pre-Greek's movement south.  This accounts
>parsimoniously for all the observable linguistic data.>>

My own impression that this theory, as far as Greek and Sanskrit go,  goes
back to Sir William Jones.