On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, charles wrote:
> Tom Wier wrote:
> >
> > charles wrote:
>
> > * There was a cataclysmic flood into the Black Sea
> > circa 5600 BC, causing dispersion of Proto-Indo-European.
> >
> > Is that by Velikovsky?
>
> Tsk! You are obviously not caught up on sci.lang ...
You beat me to it!
> No, this is coming from some mainstream geologists.
> The date is conveniently close to the PIE breakup.
It does make for a neat and tidy theory, though; apparently explains how
the Anatolians got to Turkey; and gives a pretty damn good reason for the
IE speakers to pick up and get as far away as they could!
>
> I had found a neat URL about low-density waves
> of IE hunter-gatherers expanding into depopulated
> (by relatively rapid climate change) zones, but this
> would take the cake if it pans out, y'know ...
>
> > * PIE roots were all CVC.
> >
> > Not just. I have a page for the Mimung Society on one of mysites;
> > it's at:
> >
> > <
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~twier/mimungsociety/mimungglottalic.html>
>
> > It all opens up more possibilities for imagination.
> >
> > Which is why linguistics is so much fun :)
>