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

John Cowan sikyal:

> > 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.
>
> ???
>
> These two sentences seem to contradict each other.  My understanding of
> current orthodoxy is that Hittite is just another branch like Germanic,
> Greek, Italic, or Tocharian, not particularly more remote from the others
> than they are from each other.
This is what Joe said, so I assume that you're right. I must have gotten
confused over which theory was current.


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