Re: Progress on IE syntax?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Culver
> <christopher_culver@...> wrote:
> > I'd also be grateful for any opinions on the Lehmann book. He
> > seems quite sure of himself and sets as unarguable fact matters
> > that are portrayed as more uncertain in other works.
>
> You are very right on that point. Lehmann seems above the use of
> arguments. To me that means that we are not given any particular
> reason to believe what he says.

Szemerenyi isn't any better. He'll make a claim, or state that
someone else's claim is wrong, and only backs it up with a reference
to some journal in a foreign language (though this is partly because
his book was originally in German). The best thing to do is read as
many authors as possible and form your own opinion, because generally
an author won't point out problems with his own theories.