Re: Catastrophism and syllable structure (was Re: subconscious sound preferences)

   Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:14:20 +1300
   From: Andrew Smith <hobbit@...>

   I'm reading _Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans_ by Gamkrelidze and
   Ivanov at the moment. (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 80)
   While it's a great resource to mine for IE con-cultures I am wondering how
   close to the fringe some of their interpretations come.  Would anyone care
   to pass judgement or summerize commentary on this title?

There's a mailing list devoted to Indoeuropean linguistics, and I
think you need to go there to get an informed opinion. (Most of the
stuff I occasionally regurgitate here, I got from that list). The
usual level of discussion ranges from scholarly to abstruse, but
amateur questions get answered as well (if people aren't away on
vacation or something).

Write to: indoeuropean-request@xkl.kom

There's a sister list about Nostratic (nostratic-request@xkl.com); I
think both addresses go to Rich Alderson who runs the lists, so write
nicely. There may be archives for these lists, but I don't remember
where.

Somebody talked about Neanderthal language and material culture a
while ago. That's been discussed on evolutionlanguage, a third list
which I read; talk to majordomo@list.pitt.edu, which also has an
archive function.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)