[tied] Est Age of PIE/Rate of Change

From: stevelong333
Message: 44644
Date: 2006-05-21

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
>few mainstream linguists, including students
> of IE, would subscribe to the view that the rate of language
change is
> even roughly constant (many have said so openly, and
Ballester himself
> quotes them); the estimated age of PIE is _not_ based on any
assumed rate of change....
>
> Piotr

If the estimated age of PIE is not based on rate of change, what
could it be based on?

Please don't say the wheel.

Regards,
Steve Long