From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 18421
Date: 2003-02-04
Or you may compare selected features of languages to determine their similarity, and you may conclude that, e.g. Greek is more similar to PIE than Sanskrit is (or the other way round, depending on the features being compared).
And that may well be true. I object to the implication that because this is found through the algorithm that necessarily shows some sort of bias on the part of linguiststs. Perhaps it rather shows that Latin (or Greek) are more conservative than other languages.
David Fickett-Wilbar