Re: Introducing myself to the list
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 19, 2000, 23:52 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> A lot of the arguing going on in the PIE community about PIE's
> obstruent series seems to center around whether to admit typological
> evidence like that.
I don't understand why that's controversial - if you have two possible
proto-langs for a group of languages, shouldn't you consider the one
that's more typologically common to be the more probable of the two? A
linguistic application of Occam's Razor.
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