Wasn't Ferdinand de Saussure's day job the study of Indo-European verb
forms? And then he becomes famous for +The Course in General Linguistics+
... Bit like finding yourself immortalised on the basis of a pub
conversation you can't remember having.
It can be a dangerous field -- I have a friend who spent about a year in
hiding in the wake of an article he published on the origin of the word
"horse" in Sanskrit. Some people take this stuff *really* seriously.
[Here it is, if anyone is interested -- bit too specialist for me, but all
hell broke loose in the wake of Steve's article. Death threats and all.
http://www.safarmer.com/fsw2.pdf ]
Robin
(Thanks for the further reference, Jon -- my knowledge in this area is
severely out of date, and I only did the obvious stuff at Glasgow in the
sixties in the first place.
R.)
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From: "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: IE radicals (response to Robin)
SNIP
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleicher's_fable
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