Recoverability

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Sean and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Crist <kurisuto at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 11:37 PM

> You need multiple examples of sound correspondences to be able to conduct
> the Comparative Method at all; and when the the cognates become as
> rarefied as they are this time-depth, the likelihood of having access to
> an adequate number of examples to work out the relevant sound changes
> becomes proportionately smaller, eventually reaching what for practical
> purposes is an impossibility.

Pat interjects:

"Rarefied" is a characterization only possible when one refuses to look at
the actual facts. An adequate number of examples to establish cognation is
furnished in the studies on Uralic at my website:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803

Pat

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