phonetic resemblances, etc.

H. Mark Hubey HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu
Mon Feb 1 12:23:04 UTC 1999


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Alexis Manaster-Ramer wrote:
>
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> I so rarely agree with anything Johanna says and vice versa
> (in THIS area at least, for I like most of her work in

....J.Nichols wrote
> > were the entirety of our data on those three languages, we would be
> > justified in considering relatedness to be probable.  For each of
> > the seven glosses, at least two and often all three of the languages
> > have resemblant forms; for each of the languages, each word resembles
> > one or both of those  of the other languages.
> >
> This is THE most important point, although absolute numbers cannot
> be completely ignored (one of our small disagreements).

Is it possible to get a summary of what this particular agreement is
about?

Thank you.


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Mark
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