At 4:11:06 PM on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
[...]
>>> Venneman's work is highly suspect of being nothing but
>>> fanciful.
>> That's the word in the community, mostly by people who
>> haven't read him.
They don't matter; what does matter is that those who have
read him are also extremely skeptical.
>> You should check for yourself.
Start with the Baldi/Page review in Lingua 116(2006),
2183-2220. They are on the whole quite generous, but the
review strikes me as damning with faint praise, and it's
pretty clear that Vennemann has a bee in his bonnet capable
of making him see problems where none exist. There may be
some worthwhile nuggets in EV-ES, but taken as a whole it
seems to be moving towards crackpot territory.
Brian