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

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 ...
No, this is coming from some mainstream geologists.
The date is conveniently close to the PIE breakup.

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 :)