The Single Parent Question

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/6/01 10:00:42 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
proto-language at email.msn.com writes:

> Linguistics should be done with the same, generally recognized scientific
> methodology as other sciences --- whenever that is possible.

-- linguistics is not an experimental science.  It does not use the same
methodology as experimental sciences such as physics.

It is a _descriptive_ science.  We have to work with a limited body of data,
rather like the fossil-hunters.