the Wheel and Dating PIE or NW-IE

Richard M. Alderson III alderson at netcom.com
Wed Mar 29 23:52:20 UTC 2000


On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, S. M. Stirling (JoatSimeon at aol.com) wrote:

> I don't think anyone would deny that Lithuanian taken as a whole shows less
> innovation vs. a vs. PIE than, say, Polish; and that both show less than,
> say, any Germanic language.

Unless, for example, some version of the "New Look" is correct and Germanic and
Armenian are the most conservative with respect to the stop system rather than
highly innovative.

								Rich Alderson



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