Re: peri-IE (was: Kentum/satem)

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:56, you wrote:

> At 5:06 pm +0000 29/4/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> [snip]
>
> >And don't even try searching for "pelasgian".
>
> Ah, Pelasgian!  That brings back fond memories of my M.Litt, researches in
> the late 1970s and early 1980s   :)
>
> The Pelagian I knew was supposed to be an IE language, exhibiting similar
> consonant sound shifts as those found in the Germanic & Armenian languages,
> and spoken in the Aegean area _before_ the arrival of the Greeks.  The
> evidence upon which it was constructed was IMO very flimsy, but one had to
> admire the efforts of the theorists; their 'reconstructed language' was
> worthy of the best efforts of this list; fot IMO (and the opinion of many
> others) what they had produced was a conlang   :)
>
> >Apart from a TIED page I had
> >already seen, I got mostly weird New Age sites
>
> I can't imagine what the Pelasgian I knew can have to do with New Agers -
> looks as tho this might be a different Pelasgian!
Any idea of where the Pelasgian documents might be lurking?  I would like to
have a long hard look at what a "prefessional" conlanger does with
preconceptions and a long list of PIE words, grammatical constructs, etc.

It'll help me with some of my own ideas.

> Ray.
>
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