At 12:25:40 AM on Wednesday, February 13, 2008,
fournet.arnaud wrote:
>>> Why can't Salish be part of PIE ?
>> Because it lacks PIE morphology and lexicon.
> I'm afraid you are jumping to the conclusion a little bit
> too fast.
> Why don't you look at the words ? and *after* that make a
> decision.
Quite possibly he did. In any case, if you really aren't
just indulging in an elaborate joke, you'll have to produce
much more than a tiny handful of very loose and unsystematic
lexical resemblances, especially since what I've seen of the
morphology looks very un-IE. And of course there are the
obvious geographical and temporal difficulties, which, if
not linguistic, still cannot be ignored.
Brian