From: Håkan Lindgren
Message: 3161
Date: 2000-08-16
In order to explain AA and IE relationship, the place to start is "grammar".
But... in order to understand the grammatical relationships, we have to talk
_Nostratic_ grammar (the proposed parent language of the two). But... in
order to talk about Nostratic grammar, we have to first reconstruct it!Hmm... this looks like you're reasoning in a circle. It would be easy to "reconstruct" a Nostratic grammar that proves just what you want to prove, wouldn't it?Hakan