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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Corpora colleagues, I wonder if you
did buy into the article published in Language, Vol. 81, no. 2 (June, 2005,
about which Jim Marchand wrote. (see below). He did not buy into it.
But why, if he stated that it was "well done and well documented". I could
not understand Jim. If he liked it then he bought into it. Am I right? If he
didn't, then it is not "well done and well documented". I wish I could hear more
comments on this article. Looking forward to hearing from you to <A
href="mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com">yutamb@hotmail.com</A> I am interested in the
phylogenetics of language, on cladistics, language classification and the
use of a more rigorous `mathematical' approach to reconstruction and
taxonomy in linguistscs. Remain your sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev,
Novosibirsk Ped. University (KF), Russia</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject : 19.111 phylogenetics of language<BR>Date:
Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:18:29 +0100 <BR> "Jim Marchand" <BR>Subject:
phylogenetics of language <BR>We have had discussions off and on on cladistics
and <BR>the use of a more rigorous `mathematical' approach <BR>to reconstruction
and the phylogenetics of languages. The last issue of <BR>_Language_, Vol.
81, no. 2 (June, 2005) has a <BR>well-argued and documented article,
<BR>"Perfect phylogenetic networks: A new methodology for
<BR> reconstructing the evolutionary history of natural languages,"
<BR> by Lucy Nakhleh, Don Ringe, and Tandy Warnow, pp. 382-420.<BR>I do not
buy into it, since most of our concepts, such <BR>as language, dialect,
idiolect, reconstructed language,<BR>etc. are ideal types rather than
Aristotelian (yes/no)<BR>concepts, but it is, as I said, well done and <BR>well
documented. <BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>