Re: Stacking up on standard works

W dniu 2012-04-01 16:12, Tavi pisze:

> Considering most Vasco-Caucasian languages have become extinct and only
> survive in loanwords to other families such as IE, a direct
> reconstruction of Proto-VC would very difficult if not impossible.
> However, it looks like Starostin's PNC (actually Proto-NEC with
> Proto-NWC fitted in) is a much older entity than commonly though, so
> IMHO it constitutes a good approximation to the real PVC.

I take this to be an admission of defeat. Though you pretend to stick to
the comparative method, you have presented no shred of comparative
evidence that there is a plausible connection between Basque and NEC.
Starostin's PNC (never mind its credibility and the validity of a NC
node) was not reconstructed using any external data, so how on earth can
it "approximate" Proto-Vasco-Caucasian? Perhaps you believe Basque is
nested deep within North Caucasian, in which case "Vasco-Caucasian" and
"North Caucasian" would mean the same thing, but that too would require
some sort of proof.

Piotr