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

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

>
> Bollocks. There's an enormous amount of historical
> linguistics that has been done and is being done on other
> families. Two of the best introductory texts -- those by
> Larry Trask and Lyle Campbell, especially the latter -- use
> many non-IE examples.
>

Oh yes, the big guys. Trask was the one who defended at all costs the
status quo of Basque as an isolate language, and Campbell regards
macro-families as "speculative, and often controversial, groupings".