Re: PIE pie piece 8))

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, BP.Jonsson wrote:

> At 19:29 28.11.1998 +0100, lucasso wrote:
> >do you know any good webbed resources of PIE, evolution of IE, etc.
> Try to get Beekes ['be:k@s] textbook instead. It was originally written in
> Dutch but has been translated into English, and is definitely the best
> intro around.  Ivanov & Gamkrelidze's monumental Russian work is neither an
> intro nor uncontroversial, but at least it's comparatively (no pun
> intended!) recent and has been translated intto English (as well as German
> IIRC).  It may be very fruitful to look at works dealing with the
> (pre)history of the subfamilies.  Anttila's general intro to historical
> linguistics is also very strongly recommendable, no less valuable for its
> forays into non-I.E. -- mainly Fenno-Ugric -- material.
It is speculative, but very interesting, to consider the "superfamily"
theories of Greenberg and others. Here's a URL that gets into it ...

http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/pub/ian/ian.htm

And there was a suggestion by MCV on the Linguist List
that Sumerian roots appeared to be suffix-eroded IE.
That these theories have even a chance of being true
is like icing on the cake. I might as well toss in another
current favorite URL dealing with sound symbolism.
Apparently even Socrates got into this game ...

http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/letterpage.html

I'd be interested in any other URLs of this ilk.