Re: Family project
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 4, 2001, 3:59 |
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Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> BTW, any ideas for the chronology? I'd vote for the protolang
> representing an early Bronze Age human culture, and a naturalistic
> pace of linguistic changes for the daughter languages.
What constitutes a naturalistic pace? For me, that would be entirely dependent
on the chronology that one constructs. Language change is dependent on
changing societal needs, to a large extent.
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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier
"Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi
entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn;
autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê
erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos