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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
> I'm afraid the real bad piece of news is many people are
incompetent and
> uncreative,
> A.
There is some good news for lumpers in the article by Kessler and
Lehtonen 2006). Albanian holds up in multilateral comparison only.
"A language such as Albanian might be very difficult to identify with
certainty as an Indo-European language if one could only compare it
with a single other Indo-European language, and indeed it was
accepted comparatively late into the fold (Bopp 1854). Only in the
larger context, when one compares it with the pattern that emerges
from considering the more easily grouped Indo-European languages,
does the membership of Albanian become more evident.
The success in grouping these languages may be taken as a vindication
of multilateral comparison. It supports what Greenberg always
declared to be the central 15
tenet of his methodology: "
M. Kelkar