Re[6]: [tied] Re: Brugmann's Law

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 51696
Date: 2008-01-21

At 6:27:24 PM on Sunday, January 20, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott

>>> I don't *favor* (your word) PAA evidence I *check* (my
>>> word) PIE reconstructions.

>> In the example in question, you dismissed IE-internal
>> evidence in favor of evidence from Arabic. In other
>> words, you favored the Arabic evidence over the IE
>> evidence.

> The semantics within PIE is lax. Hence unconvincing.

To you. I find the semantics far more convincing than
any speculative correspondences outside IE.

Brian