Re: Stacking up on standard works

W dniu 2012-04-01 22:22, Tavi pisze:

> I've got a number of correspondences between both, but I'm afraid this
> isn't the appropriate place nor time to show them. Meanwhile I could
> refer you to Bengtson's articles.

We are discussing the comparative method in general, and I want to show
you when it *doesn't* yield acceptable results. As one of the owners and
moderators of this list I can assure you that you are free to show us
the relevant evidence here and now. I have seen some articles by
Bengtson, but you have been asked to show us that *you* know how to use
the comparative method. If you do, please apply it. One good
illustrative example will do for starters.

> I must repeat Basque isn't part of NEC or North Caucasian, but in any
> case a somewhat distant relative.

In that case Proto-North-Caucasian, valid or not, cannot "approximate"
PVC without including Basque in the comparison.

> AFAIK, the first person to propose a grouping of Basque, (North)
> Caucasian and Burushaski was the Polish geographer Bogdan Zaborski c.
> 1970. He called this grouping "Asianitic". Then came Bengtson in the
> '90s and coined the term "Macro-Caucasian" or "Vasco-Caucasian", later
> abandoned in the context of a wider "Sino-Caucasian" or "Dene-Caussian"
> phylum.
>
> IMHO Vasco-Caucasian would include extinct languages such as Iberian,
> Etruscan, Hurro-Urartian ans possibly also Sumerian and Elamite. The
> languages brought to Europe by Near East farmers were probably from this
> stock.

You give an entirely new meaning to the word "probably". Before we can
say if this scheme is probable or not, we need to have a look at the
evidence. Without it, your proposal is just a fairy tale.

Piotr