Garrett Andrew. A new model of Indo-European subgrouping and dispersal

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 12–15, 1999, ed. S. S. Chang, L. Liaw, J. Ruppenhofer. — Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1999. — p. 146–156.In this century two great discoveries have shaken our view of the Indo—European family tree and protolanguage. The first was the discovery of Hittite, which in turn revealed the existence of an Anatolian branch of Indo—European; the second was the discovery in Central Asia of languages belonging to the previously unknown Tocharian branch of the family. Yet as important as these are, they are not the only twentieth century archaeological finds with Indo—European ramifications. In this paper I will explore the implications of a less dramatic set of discoveries for Indo—European subgrouping.