than a dictionary of commonalities. In his study Traces of Stem Roots in Slavic Languages published in 1903, Alexander Pogodin regarded Proto-Balto-Slavic as science fiction. In 1908, Antoine Meillet published a book called Indo-European Dialects (French: Les dialectes indo-europeens) where he deconstructed the arguments made by Karl Brugman regarding the existence of the Proto-Balto-Slavic by presenting eight counterarguments and formulating a conception on independent Baltic and Slavic linguistic development. See also List of Balto-Slavic languages Corded Ware culture International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology Outline of Slavic history and culture Notes References Thomas Olander's master's thesis on the existence of Balto-Slavic genetic node solely on the basis of accentological evidence Further reading . Matasović, Ranko. "Supstratne riječi u baltoslavenskim jezicima" [Substratum words in Balto-Slavic]. Filologija, br. 60 (2013): 75-102. https://hrcak.srce.hr/116920 . Pronk, Tijmen. “Balto-Slavic”. In: The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective. Edited by Thomas Olander. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 269–92. . External links Balto-Slavic Accentuation, by Kortlandt; a very idiosyncratic approach to Balto-Slavic accentuation (Bernstein and Trubachev on the Balto-South-Slavic isoglosses) Biennial International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing Indo-European languages