Re: Nostratic
From: Anti-imperialist (ai_at_anti-imperialist.net)
Date: 09/18/04
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:24:29 -0700
Jacques Guy wrote:
>
> Merlijn De Smit wrote:
> > I am not as agnostic of
> > the multilateral comparison approach of Greenberg and Ruhlen - for
> > reasons above.
>
> Sorry, it's hogwash. A multilateral comparison is nothing
> but a number of binary comparisons. Take 5 languages, and
> compare them "multilaterally". What you do is just 10 binary
> comparisons:
>
> A with B
> A with C
> A with D
> A with E
> B with C
> B with D, and so on to:
> D with E
Absolutely false.
A with B-E
B with A, C-E
C with A-B, D-E
D with A-C, E
E with A-D
Or if you have many many languages, even more. You are comparing each
language to the entire word list, not 1-1. BTW, why did this "hogwash"
method work for IE, and for the language families of Africa, assuming is
nonsense as you say?
>
> There no other way of comparing a collection of
> N languages, whatever N.
I just showed you.
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