Re[2]: [tied] Re: Belgs

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 60894
Date: 2008-10-15

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