Re: [cybalist] Re: Computational Historical Linguistics

>It may be the case that phonological and morphological features (being less
>borrowable) should be trusted more than lexical >"characters", but one has
>to bear in mind that many similarities in >these domains are coincidental,
>typological or due to parallel >development rather than common origin.

Yuck, definitely not by means phonological. Afterall, the European languages
tend to adopt common sounds from each other like the uvular "r", n'est-ce
pas? Maybe I'm dillusional but trusting grammatical features seems the best
way... and you can't plug a grammar into an equation.

- gLeN
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