Re: Stacking up on standard works

At 6:26:49 PM on Sunday, April 1, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>> Having read some of Larry Trask's detailed demonstrations
>> of Bengtson's incompetence in dealing with Basque, I am
>> not disposed to accept much of anything that he says on
>> the subject. And in any case it's *your* understanding of
>> the comparative method that's at issue, not Bengtson's.

> Although I'm very critic about Bengtson's work, at the
> same time I must acknowledge he's one of the pioneers in
> the matter. Unfortunately, Basque has tons of loanwords
> from other languages, including Vasco-Caucasian ones such
> as Iberian. Worse yet, he chose to bypass Mitxelena's
> Paleo-Basque entirely because it didn't fit in his theory.

This is altogether unresponsive and does nothing to justify
your suggestion that we look at Bengtson's work in lieu of
your own.

Brian