--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:

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> I think what linguistics needs is a "semantic metric". I know how

to

> derive at least two different
> ones from data but need time and money :-) I think all linguists

should

> appreciate the need for
> semantic metrics. It does not matter how many. That could always be
> worked out, fixed,
> repaired, improved etc. The trick is to get going.
>

That would require us to know some canonical development of a
canonical set of concepts. That is a tall order.

Torsten