Re: Why the Proto-Indoeuropean numerals are not motivated within IE?

At 2:23:51 PM on Sunday, May 27, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> All these people (Greenberg, Ruhlen, Bengtson) belong to
> what I call the "Sapir-Swadesh school", whose main
> representants are Edward Sapir and Morris Swadesh and
> which sees Comparative Linguistics as a branch of
> Anthropology. By contrast, modern IE studies, founded by
> 19th century's Neogrammarians, are a branch of Classical
> Phylology

I doubt that there are many modern historical linguists who
see historical linguistics as anything but a historical
science in its own right, with roots in anthropology *and*
philology (among other things).