> Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:
> >
> > > You really have a knack for raising teremendously interesting issues
> >
> > Controversial ones, too.
> That's what makes them interesting :-)
> >
> > > :-) I'm impressed by Ruhlen, Greenberg and Renfrew : they make me
>hope > linguists and archeologists may help know a little more about that
> > > primary relation. What do you'll think of Ruhlen's theory (I know it
> > > only via his last popularising book) ?
> >
> > I think it makes a lot of very little, and is methodologically
> > unsound. See the sci.lang FAQ
> > at
http://www.tezcat.com/~markrose/lang21.html#22 for full details.
> >
>
> Oh, well. But what of the genetic findings he and others claim bolstering it ?