<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Mar 21 2007, 08:02 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Mar 21 2007, 08:02 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->And yes, numerous scholars in IE Studies themselves have variously questioned:
(a) <i>IEL:</i> are all the languages that are considered Indo-European languages actually derived from PIE? Are they all related in the same way - that is, are they all genuinely IE languages?[right][snapback]65940[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
An example for the above taken from IF article on AIT - footnote 51:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Indo-European Pursuits, Scientific paths diverge in the quest for ancient Eurasians, Science News, Vol. 147, No. 8, 1995
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In an ironic twist, Indo-Europeanâs close family ties have triggered an estrangement in the last decade between archaeologists and linguists, the two groups of scientists most involved in answering questions about the origins of modern Eurasians.
<b>Many archaeologists have come to view this linguistic exercise as potentially misleading</b> and, at best, secondary to excavations of ancient human settlements.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Archaeologist John Robb of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, for instance
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->argues that prehistoric Indo-European may elude curious linguists forever.
The growth of states and civilizations, which began around 6,000 years ago, probably wiped out the majority of languages that had flourished for the previous few thousand years in farming communities, Robb writes in the December 1993 ANTIQUITY. Linguistic loss was hastened in parts of the Indo-European world by the <b>adoption of languages used in regional trade and the borrowing of words from foreign speakers</b>. These words were eventually woven into entirely new âcreoleâ languages, Robb holds.
Indo-European tongues predominate today by happenstance. They were spoken just outside the range of civilizations expanding out from the Middle East and thus escaped this linguistic onslaught, the Michigan archaeologist says. Moreover, <b>some languages now lumped under the Indo-European rubric may have acquired vocabulary and grammatical resemblances through random changes over time</b>, Robb says.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
(a) <i>IEL:</i> are all the languages that are considered Indo-European languages actually derived from PIE? Are they all related in the same way - that is, are they all genuinely IE languages?[right][snapback]65940[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
An example for the above taken from IF article on AIT - footnote 51:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Indo-European Pursuits, Scientific paths diverge in the quest for ancient Eurasians, Science News, Vol. 147, No. 8, 1995
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In an ironic twist, Indo-Europeanâs close family ties have triggered an estrangement in the last decade between archaeologists and linguists, the two groups of scientists most involved in answering questions about the origins of modern Eurasians.
<b>Many archaeologists have come to view this linguistic exercise as potentially misleading</b> and, at best, secondary to excavations of ancient human settlements.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Archaeologist John Robb of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, for instance
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->argues that prehistoric Indo-European may elude curious linguists forever.
The growth of states and civilizations, which began around 6,000 years ago, probably wiped out the majority of languages that had flourished for the previous few thousand years in farming communities, Robb writes in the December 1993 ANTIQUITY. Linguistic loss was hastened in parts of the Indo-European world by the <b>adoption of languages used in regional trade and the borrowing of words from foreign speakers</b>. These words were eventually woven into entirely new âcreoleâ languages, Robb holds.
Indo-European tongues predominate today by happenstance. They were spoken just outside the range of civilizations expanding out from the Middle East and thus escaped this linguistic onslaught, the Michigan archaeologist says. Moreover, <b>some languages now lumped under the Indo-European rubric may have acquired vocabulary and grammatical resemblances through random changes over time</b>, Robb says.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->