[Review of] Gvozdanović, Jadranka. Celtic and Slavic and the Great Migrations: Reconstructing Linguistic History. Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft, vol. 1. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009
Journal: KU ScholarWorks (The University of Kansas)
Year: 2010

The Russian Review no such research can be conducted without an understanding of diachrony (change or development in the structural systems of a language over a given period of time), which would be expected to manifest itself in applying the comparative method and establishing acceptable phonetic laws.This book fails to apply any of this knowledge.The segmentation of the words analyzed is guided by the desired outcome, phonetic laws are ignored, and remotely similar parts of words in two langua