UPenn tree; was: Indo-Hittite Hypothesis

Hans Holm Hans_Holm at h2.maus.de
Sat Mar 4 16:16:00 UTC 2000


MAI>The UPenn work is supposed to provide exactly the information we have
MAI>lacked till now, that is, where to put in branches.  Having generated
MAI>their branching structure, they then picked a root position such that
MAI>Anatolian branches away from the entire rest of the family, all of
MAI>which can be viewed as going back to a single proto-language.

.. again: "Where is the exact information" on the UPenn tree???

We only do have the description of Tandy Warnows so-called 'optimality
criteria'. And the results. But in my humble understanding, there are
still some (or a lot of?) links missing.

Regards
Hans J. Holm
D-30629 Hannover



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