Linguist criticizes article's framing as outdated
1 Sep 18 1:19 AM · 6d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 2 comments · 3 sources · development 1 of 4
On Hacker News, commenter TFNA challenged the article's central premise, arguing that no modern Indo-Europeanist believes in a single Pre-Greek language and that this was an outdated theory associated with scholar Robert Beekes who was suffering from dementia when he developed it.
“The title is super-clickbaity, as no Indo-Europeanist working today believes in a single Pre-Greek language; this was the idée fixe of the scholar Robert Beekes well over a decade ago now, and very flawed research.”
TFNADanny Hieber Linguist and newsletter authorTFNA Hacker News commenter
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> early Greeks, and especially the Mycenaeans (c. 1750–1050 BCE), are associated with major advances in technology (including writing)I’ve been doing a bit of reading on the Bronze Age Collapse recently. It was such an apocalyptic event that Greeks forgot how to write and read.Before the collapse, Greeks were using Linear A and Linear B. It took…
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The title is super-clickbaity, as no Indo-Europeanist working today believes in a single Pre-Greek language; this was the idée fixe of the scholar Robert Beekes well over a decade ago now, and very flawed research as Beekes was succumbing to dementia then. In fact, within the field "Pre-Greek!" has become something of an inside joke.The article…
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> because the Proto-Indo-European language arose in the landlocked steppes, it had no need for—and has no securely reconstructable word for—‘sea’.No, it is mori, attested in marine, muir, maryadah, mal, morje, etc in farflung IE tongues today.
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