Re: Indo-Hittite

Roger Mills scripsit:

> Here's a reply to my query to Cybalist:
> (I might mention too, that they discussed the upenn cladistic survey some
> time back and were not impressed-- IIRC because of the language(s) selected
> to represent the various families.  I'll try to find it in their archive)
They used the oldest available actual (not reconstructed)
representatives of each branch, though not necessarily the oldest texts
of those languages.  Therefore: Hittite, Toch B, Latin, Old Irish,
(Homeric?) Greek, (modern?) Armenian, modern Albanian, Skt, Avestan,
Old English, Old Church Slavonic, modern Lithuanian.

Thanks, Roger.

ObRunningGag:  For an Austronesianist, you aren't so bad.

> I wish somebody came up with a catchy name for that central
> "crown clade" (to borrow a term from biology) that includes all the
> living IE languages. There's no such handy name as yet, so people
> label many reconstructions "PIE" for lack of a more suitable term.
This is the node I called "Non-Tocharian" in my description of the UPenn
cladogram.  All the "Non-" names, plus "European Satem", were ones I
invented: the actual cladogram just has unlabeled nodes at these points.

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