Re: [tied] Re: A New language tree

From: David Webb
Message: 37767
Date: 2005-05-09

I will address Mr Kelkar’s posting later in the week, when another unrelated essay is completed.

 

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From: cybalist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Wordingham
Sent: 08 May 2005 22:52
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [tied] Re: A New language tree

 

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>     But this is still not the case regarding Mr. Kelkar because I don't
> see here a lot of opposite answers on the arguments posted in that .pdf
> file....

I did wonder whether we should treat Kazanas's list
(<http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/documents/SPIE.pdf>) as being
posted.  There are a few questions towards the end which might take
more than a few minutes to answer.  I wonder what level of skill and
effort our academic linguists would rate answering (rebutting?) it as
a task for a student.  There do indeed seem to be some open-ended
questions - the one on word formation in particular.  Certainly Jens's
data-gathering work for the o-infix would be relevant to that
question!  However, perhaps the task there is to give as good an
account of Classical Greek as Panini did for Classical (not Vedic)
Sanskrit.

Richard.