[tied] Est Age of PIE/Rate of Change

--- 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