<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">So you are saying that you
<b>dis</b>agree that we would use phylogenetic testing if we had
complete and robust knowledge of the phylogenies of the world’s
languages?<u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Assuming we only have knowledge of the phylogenies, but not actual knowledge of feature values of the past: I disagree that these types of phylogenetic methods are the best alternative available.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">I definitely agree here! </span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Great to hear! <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El lun, 6 nov 2023 a las 10:43, Juergen Bohnemeyer (<<a href="mailto:jb77@buffalo.edu" target="_blank">jb77@buffalo.edu</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Dear Matías – Thanks for the response! Just checking:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> on behalf of Matías Guzmán Naranjo <<a href="mailto:mguzmann89@gmail.com" target="_blank">mguzmann89@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, November 6, 2023 at 10:15<br>
<b>To: </b>Gerhard Jäger <<a href="mailto:gerhard.jaeger@uni-tuebingen.de" target="_blank">gerhard.jaeger@uni-tuebingen.de</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>LINGTYP <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lingtyp] Greenbergian word order universals: confirmed after all<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dear Jürgen,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt">I know I'm not impartial in this discussion, but:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">So this would be my first question to the detractors of phylogenetic/dynamic (Maslova’s term)/co-evolutionary tests for typological generalizations: do you
disagree that if we had that perfect knowledge, we would as a matter of course take into account the phylogenetic perspective?</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt">I do, for several reasons, but mostly I think there are more interesting/useful methods that are neither phylogenetic inference or stratified sampling.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">So you are saying that you
<b>dis</b>agree that we would use phylogenetic testing if we had complete and robust knowledge of the phylogenies of the world’s languages?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">I knew I shouldn’t have used negation in that question
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Also, I didn’t mean to suggest that we use *<b>exclusively</b>* phylogenetic testing, just that it would be difficult to claim to have tested a generalization without having performed
a phylogenetic test. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt">I mostly agree with Gerhard on one point he makes, though, which is that just one result is not enough.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt">We need to see similar results emerge from different methods.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt">Focusing on the results from one or two techniques seems a bit misguided to me.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">I definitely agree here! – Best – Juergen
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Dr. Matías Guzmán Naranjo<br>Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar<br>Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg</span><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="https://mguzmann89.gitlab.io/" target="_blank">https://mguzmann89.gitlab.io/</a><br></span></div></div><br></div></div>