--- mkelkar2003 <
swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
> Extracts from Migration in World History (Manning
> 2005)
> Continuing back into the deeper past, we may ask
> whether the
> Indo-European was part of a broader and earlier
> grouping of languages.
> Indeed, the answer is yes, and the most
> authorititative summary is
> that of Greenberg,
...
>
Greenberg as the greatest authority. I'm sure all the
traditionalists are gritting their teeth over that.
Greenberg could see patterns but he was so busy
mapping out macro-groups that he neglected to do his
homework. Hence, he did more harm than good to the
cause of Eurasiatic et al.
His Amerind venture turned out to be a joke because he
just threw together a bunch of words that looked alike
and said voila!
The sad thing is that with meticulous work in
reconstruction, macro-families may turn out to be
viable. But slid-shod scholarship has caused
macro-families to be labled as taboo