Re: [tied] Methodology: Throw it out the window, folks

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 10428
Date: 2001-10-19

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:00:24, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>Miguel provides examples that demonstrate his disgust for
>methodologically sound comparative linguistics:
> >And Latin sanguis < *h1sh2angW-.
> >[...]
> >*h1ésh2rgW, *h1shángW- "blood".
> >[...]
> >Arm. <leard> (*lepr.t), like Skt. <yakrt> (*yekWr.t) and Grk. G.
> ><he:patos> (*ye:kWnt-os) prove that this stem ended in -rt, -nt-.
>
>What can I possibly say to these biased assertions? There
>is no logical substantiation for *h1ésh2rgW to be found anywhere
>and you're always using evidence from only ONE branch or ONE
>language to support your psychotic fantasies.
>
>But silly me, I'm just following what has been reconstructed based
>on 150 years of intensive research and debate whereupon *-gW is
>simply not acknowledged nor possible.

IEW 343 *e(:)sr(gW), EIEC 71 under *h1esh2r "Cf. the derivative in Lat
sanguen (< *h1sh2en-gW-en-)".