Scandinavian languages

[Sheila Watts]

>I might add that the well-known Pennsylvania tree for the IE family sees the
>entire Germanic branch as having done something similar: this view sees
>Germanic as having started off as part of an eastern cluster of IE languages,
>but then as having "migrated" (linguistically, I mean) into a western
>cluster.  The authors' final decision is to put Germanic into a western
>branch, but they explicitly acknowledge the inadequacy of this decision.

Well-known, but not to me, alas: could we have a reference?

Sheila Watts
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