Re: [tied] language system

09-09-03 01:30, Michael wrote:

> Hi, What's the best way to represent the Indo-European language
> family, or any branch or sub-branch of IE, as a scientific system,
> with the 5 key components of Inputs, Flows or throughputs, Stores or
> storage areas and Outputs? Or is this even possible and can a model
> of this be made at all?

What for? Is there a one-size-fits-all scientific schema of formal
representation? And, while we're talking science, I don't think it's
possible for four to equal five.

;^|

Piotr