From: mkelkar2003
Message: 48400
Date: 2007-04-30
>wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@>
>Germanic
> > "In figure 6.9(a), English appears quite clearly as a North
> > language.Germanic
>
> Which is in itself cause for alarm, as English is not a North
> language.Germanic
>
> > In Figure 6.9 (b), however, the recoding of that single
> > item (wing) as a loan means English appears outside the North
> > branch. Indeed, in Figure 6.9 (b) English falls outside GermanicRomance.
> > branch altogether, due to the influence of borrowings from
> > These have been entirely appropriately coded as borrowings, orunique
> > items, in the database, but cumulative effects of all these uniquewhich
> > states is to distance English from the other Germanic languages
> > do not share them.Review of McMahon and McMahon 2005 by John Nerbonne
>
> If you are classifying by similarity, this is an entirely reasonable
> consequence. It is for this sort of reason that some try to use
> synapomorphies when drawing up genealogical trees.
>
> Note the parallels between Romany and English.
>
> Richard.
>