Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

W dniu 2012-03-09 23:29, Tavi pisze:

> Interestingly enough, one of the authors is Q.D. Atkinson, co-author
> with R.D. Gray of the famous glottochronological tree of the IE family
> first published in 2003.

They did the best they could using this kind of Bayesian phylogenetic
analysis. At least they avoided many of the usual pitfalls and did not
assume constant rates of replacement, so their method is *not*
glottochronology in the traditional sense.

> Unfortunately, language evoluti on implies SEMANTIC SHIFT
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change>, which can't be measured
> by this kind of studies, because the fixed variables are the meanings
> themselves, not words.

A straw man argument. You should read the article first.

Piotr