Showing posts with label linguistic archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linguistic archaeology. Show all posts

Saturday, November 6, 2021

Wheels, Languages and Bullshit (Or How Not To Do Linguistic Archaeology) - J.S. Morris

Came across a paper on IE Linguistics by Jonathan Sherman Morris. I found it extremely humorous. Its a long read but covers a lot of criticisms of the way linguistic archaeology has been used to serve the authors purposes, especially authors like David Anthony. The following quotes are from this paper. 

horse wheel and languages