Fascinating historical site

[Claire Bowern]

Gotta run to admissions meeting, but very quickly: The site will 
eventually be a collection of hypotheses [good and bad]; it makes no 
particular claims about relationships itself (this has come up several 
times in the board discussions, since none of the board members are 
long-rangers). We know these trees don't represent best practice.
Claire


Wolfgang Schulze wrote:
> Dear Claire and Logan,
> yes, it's fun indeed. However, it also is somewhat suggestive. For 
> instance, it proposes a common North Caucasian language family that, 
> however, is far from being proved. It is just a (in my eyes rather 
> problematic) hypothesis. So, wouldn't it make sense to mark those 
> instances in which  a common node is at least controversial? Also: Is 
> there an option to - say - revise data through input from users (for 
> instance, Udi has proven to be what is called in MultiTree a 'Nuclear 
> Lezgic > East Lezgic' (that is, in my terms Eastern Samur)  language, 
> hence is no longer to be classified as a separate offspring of 
> Lezgic....)? [Sorry for these details, I just wanted to illustrate the 
> problem/question. I guess many users will come across analogous problems 
> when looking at 'their' languages]....
> Very best wishes
> and compliments for this ambitious project,
> Wolfgang
> 
> Claire Bowern wrote:
>> The reason it's a "secret" is that it's still in beta testing at the 
>> moment. There will be an announcement when testing is complete and 
>> more trees are uploaded. Glad you like it!
>> ~Claire (who's on the advisory board for the project)
>>
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