>Nostatic ... There is virtually _*NO*_ disagreement about which words or
>which attested phonemes correspond in which attested words,
An amazing claim.
Either the original statement is wrong - I forget who said it - or your
claim here is wrong.
The original statement was that there are two different sets of
correspondences, Bomhard's and someone else's (Illic-Svityc? Pat Ryan?)
That is certainly what I believe to be the case. For example:
Bomhard has proto-Nostratic *t' gives PIE **t' > *d and Proto-AA
*t'
Illic-Svityc has proto-Nostratic *t' gives PIE **t and
proto-AA *t'
That means one system has AA *t' ~ PIE /t/, the other has it ~ PIE /d/.
Thtese are not the same.
Peter