From: G&P
Message: 66497
Date: 2010-08-29
>> 5) It doesn't matter how many "laws",
>The point here is that if there are too many chanɡes, the evidence won't be able to support them well.
I think the article assumes that one PIE root is one piece of evidence, which can support one sound law at most. That is absurd. As you suggest, it is correspondences, and the number of them, that matters. And one root can participate in more than one correspondence.
Peter