Re: "Wife" (was: Homosexuality etc.)

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From: "JS Bangs" <jaspax@...>
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Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: "Wife" (was: Homosexuality etc.)


> John Cowan sikyal:
>
> > This "Indo-Hittite hypothesis" has been around a long time, possibly as
> > far back as the discovery that Hittite was IE-related.  I thought it
more
> > or less died out in the 1940s, and I haven't heard of any new evidence.
>
> What do you mean by "Indo-Hittite hypothesis" ? If you mean the fact that
> Hittite is related to IE, then my impression (from reading current
> articles) is that the theory is alive and well, and has become accepted
> fact. If you mean the re-drawing of IE trees to split immediately to
> Proto-Hittite and Proto-Everything-Else, then I agree that the theory
> isn't current. My current understanding is that Hittite and
> otherwise-reconstructible PIE are more or less sister languages, descended
> from a common ancestor that can't be reliably reconstructed.
>
No, the "Indo-Hittite hypothesis" is what you're suggesting.  The current
reconstructions of PIE include data from Hittite.