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IntroductionThe Baltic, Slavic and Germanic language families share some similarities that are not found in the other branches of Indo-European. The shared dative plural in *-m- instead of *-bh - led 19 th century scholars such as Schleicher to group Baltic, Slavic and Germanic together under one branch. A Baltic-Slavic- Germanic group was still assumed by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov in the later 20 th century. The assumption of one Baltic-Slavic-Germanic branch is not unproblematic. It does not take into account isoglosses such as the centum/satem-division (Mallory 1989: 18-21), the notion that the dative plural *-m- does not necessarily have to be interpreted as a common innovation of Baltic, Slavic and Germanic, and the findings that contact between Germanic and Slavic speakers only started after the Proto-Germanic period, suggesting that these language families were not adjacent to each other during much of their prehistory (Pronk-Tiethoff 2012), (Kortlandt 2018). Baltic, Slavic and Germanic share several lexical items that are not found outside of these language families. Stang (1972) gives an overview of many of these lexical forms that may constitute a Baltic-Slavic-Germanic isog

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Author

VINCENT F. VAN DER HEIJDEN

Publisher

Universiteit Leiden

Published

2018

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Historical & Comparative Linguistics, Language