the Wheel and Dating PIE or NW-IE

[Carol F. Justus]

Is there some compelling reason for rejecting Edgar Polome's (JIES 22
[1994] 289-305] with references) linguistic arguments (based on earlier
studies as well) for an initial closer link between Germanic and Baltic,
but Slavic and Iranian, then a movement of Slavic closer to Baltic with
Germanic moving closer to Italic, then when Italic tribes moved south into
Italy, closer contact between Celtic and Germanic? This would not imply an
original unity but successive post-PIE areal contacts at different stages
of cultural development.

Carol Justus

>Stanley Friesen <sarima at friesen.net> wrote:

>>At 07:55 AM 2/23/00 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

>>>Stanley Friesen <sarima at friesen.net> wrote:

>>>>[Though I actually question tracing B-S back to Corded Ware].

>>>G-B-S.

>>I am coming from the position of being unconvinced of the reality of
>>Germano-Balto-Slavic.  In fact I cannot consistently place Balto-Slavic in
>>the IE tree.  Depending on how I analyze it, it either comes out linked to
>>Germanic (as you suggest), or linked to the Greek and Indo-Iranian groups.

>Actually, I'm not suggesting a GBS genetic node.  I think
>Germanic "broke away" quite early on (while "Balto-Slavic" was
>still more or less undifferentiated eastern PIE).  Afterwards,
>Germanic and Balto-Slavic came into close areal contact (a "GBS
>Sprachbund", possibly in the Corded Ware period).  In fact, the
>opposite of what Ringe seems to be suggesting (GBS, later areal
>Gmc-Ital/Celt contacts).

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>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>mcv at wxs.nl