the Wheel and Dating PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>mcv at wxs.nl writes:

>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). >>

-- continuous Germanic/Balto-Slavic contact, diminishing in intensity, with
continuous contact between Germanic and Italic and Celtic, ditto, would seem
to fit the evidence.  That is, from the PIE period the dialects antecedent to
Germanic were "always" west of Balto-Slavic, and north of Italic and Celtic.