Ebook: Time depth in Indo-European

In: Renfew C., MacMahon A. and Trask L. (eds.). Time Depth in Historical Linguistics, vol. 2 — Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2000. — pp. 441-454."In this paper I do not propose to give you a time depth, or even a range of possible time-depths, for the Indo-European language family. Rather, I propose firstly to examine some of the existing assumptions about the time depth of Indo-European in recent scholarship, and then to state why the whole notion of a time depth for a reconstructed language is problematic."