<Language> Re: Caucasus and Kaska

[Claire Bowern]

>If linguistics really took "initial conditions" into realistic
>consideration, we would have been spared the pouring of much ink!

>Pat

Fair enough, but since truly initial conditions are irrecoverable,
"earliest known stage" will have to do! This is, incidentally, another good
example of why languages are different from thermodynamic models.

Claire