Re: [tied] Limits of historical linguistics and the IE problem

From: P&G
Message: 17709
Date: 2003-01-17

>a cursory glance in Baldi 1983 or any other similar study will demonstrate
that the Vedic >language itself suffered fewer losses ..

Doesn't the statement rather presuppose a Vedic view of PIE - so it's
arguing in a circle?
It is also clear that Indic / Vedic, along with Greek, has made perhaps the
largest number of innovations.

Peter