Re: [tied] Occam's Razor

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 5985
Date: 2001-02-08

Oops. Substitute "Old Saxon" for "Dutch". A Dutch cognate would make it West Germanic.
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Occam's Razor

... For example, if a word occurs *only* in English, Dutch and Frisian, the most parsimoniuos solution is not to reconstruct it for Proto-Germanic and regard it as an Ingveonic innovation ...