IE and Etruscan

[Yoel L. Arbeitman]

In the intervening time Adrados has written up his theory of how Etruscan
fits as an Anatolian language, but one that breaks off from
Proto-Common-Anatolian long, long before what we normally call the
Anatolian Languages break off. That is that from Proto-Anatolian, first
Etruscan branches off, representing this early stage of PA, much later
Common Anatolian (Hittite, the Luwic Languages, Palaic, the ancestor of
Lydian, etc.) break off.

Neu has written a different conceptualization of the position of Anatolian
within such a possible perspective. Adrados's article is in JIES and Neu's
in ZVS/KZ/HS. I can look up the dates, but don't have them at hand. And
just recently, based on no morphology whatsoever, Renfrew has Minoan
breaking off from this Mythic Proto-Common-Anatolian 7,000 B.C.E.

	Yoel

At 12:19 AM 3/8/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Good old G-bock was honest.  Privately -- to me --Hamp only said: VG's data
>seem to work, but oughta have more.
>
>pete
>
>Jim Rader wrote:
>
>> Nearly twenty years ago I heard Eric Hamp give an account of
>> Georgiev's lecture.  As I recall Hamp telling it, Georgiev thought
>> that Etruscan practically WAS Hittite,
>
>RIGHT: this is what I remember.
>
>> i.e., that Etruscan was an
>> Anatolian language.  The audience didn't contest his thesis out of
>> sheer stupefaction, not because they agreed.  Gueterbock walked out
>> of the lecture shaking his head and saying "Very interesting, very
>> interesting!"