One Step at a Time

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/6/01 9:40:25 PM Mountain Daylight Time, X99Lynx at aol.com
writes:

> Are you saying there will be no systematic correspondences to be found among
> those "half-a-dozen languages"?

-- the languages in question will be descended from _either_ Spanish _or_
Basque, and the reconstruction will give you either Spanish, or Basque.

It will also show up a variety of borrowed items not traceable to the
proto-language; rather like the large non-IE element in the Proto-Germanic
lexicon.