Onno Hovers (ms., 2021), "The Two Short O’s of Indo‑European"

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Then let's focus on the grant you got. Congrats and enjoy it!

In the end, this is what happens most of the time, so cheer up! By the way, my application for a grant to write a historical grammar was once denied 'cos one of the reviewers thought that my goal is to write a synchronic grammar (so, yep, the reviewer didn't even bother to read the project).😉

None that I can recall, but I'm sure that for some, Doom is a marvellous thing too.

You may be very young for this, but there's a computer video game called "Loom", what a marvellous thing...

I agree with this 100%. And would add "classification" to that list

Be as it may, I do really hope people understand that historical linguistics isn't just "homelands", "proto-languages" or something that only "works" with Indo-European languages.

yes, this aligns very well with the bibliography that he's recommending (Demoule, etc.).

It is shocking to find out that Demoule has such an influence.

I'm afraid that some of the views expressed in *the* thread cannot be alleviated by referring to a handbook of historical linguistics. This goes deeper, beyond the "soft" vs "hard" thing.

"oh boy", that's a way of putting it.

My reply was a response to the statement that "it might as well not exist". I didn't comment on the actual use of the word.

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