Re: Any comparative method detectives out there?

On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:03:01 -0400, John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
wrote:

>I've started looking at it, but it's still going to take about a week before
>I'll have time to delve into it in more detail, so yes, please hold off a
>while! Alex is probably quite a bit ahed of me by now, but it would still be
>nice to be able to at least try.
I'm not so sure about that; a lot of the work has just been manipulating the
data and presenting it in a tractable form.  But I have made some progress
towards a reconstruction of the sounds: not much is going on with initial
consonants so I think I've got them sorted, although the medial behaviour
looks somewhat more complex, and I've also started looking at vowels, which
pose a number of problems.

I'm hesitant to say anything of too much substance, since it would
inevitably be spoilerish, or at least influence the other reconstructors.

Alex