[Indo-Eurasia] **The Farmer-Sproat-Witzel Model
Asko Parpola
asko.parpola at HELSINKI.FI
Sat Feb 10 17:20:27 UTC 2007
Quoting Michael Witzel <witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>:
>Incidentally, if some things were said about the F-S-W paper at
Madison in October 2005(?), this has not reached my ears yet. The only
thing in writing so far is a rather polemic paper by my friend A.
Parpola, his talk at Tokyo in June 2005, where I was present. There was
NO time for discussion! We did that a few weeks later, in his, M.
Kenoyer's, Steve's and my presence, at Kyoto. A good defense for the
"script" model did not emerge. Kenoyer conceded that the Indus signs do
not represent written language (like sentences) but he still called
them a 'script' ...
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A PDF file of my paper is available at the following internet address:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~aparpola/tices_50.pdf
In the paper I analyze all the arguments of the Farmer-Sproat-Witzel paper
and find them inconclusive. To what extent I succeeded in defending the
"script" model and to what extent the paper is polemic is of course not for
me but for the readers to judge.
With best regards,
Asko Parpola
Institute for Asian and African Studies
POB 59 (Unioninkatu 38 B)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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