"lumpers"

[proto-language]

Dear John and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. John E. McLaughlin" <mclasutt at brigham.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 2:54 PM

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> Perhaps we really need to distinguish between those "lumpers" who only
> publish working papers with possibly suggestive and unsifted data (Greenberg,
> et al.)  and those who publish finished proofs with well-analyzed and
> evaluated data.

[PR]

I think this characterizes the situation perfectly,

Nonetheless, I think into which camp Greenberg should be placed may be
affected by a reading of his recent _Indo-European and Its Closest
Relatives_, which I find a significant advance over what he has written
before. In it, he compares morphology among many reputedly related
language-families in a, IMHO, thoroughly believable way.

Pat

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