Re: New Methodology on Analysis of Language Change

Thanks again [for the data excerpts]. (You're spending an awful lot of
time on something worth nothing.)

Yep, the methodology is identical to Ringe et al.'s (yet I didn't notice
anything by that team in their references).

And their features are AFAICT entirely typological. You could do the
chart for 5000 languages and come up with a classification that had
nothing whatsoever to do with reality.

In fact, they don't even claim to have tested it by using it either for
well-understood families, say IE, or for a random selection of
languages!

Once again: Why does *Science* not use peer review for linguistics
articles?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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