LINGUIST List 8.937

Fri Jun 27 1997

Disc: Binary Comparison

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <annlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Marcel Erdal, Re: 5.939 Binary Comparison

Message 1: Re: 5.939 Binary Comparison

I am sure Doerfer never said that only binary comparison should be
allowed (e.g., Turkic and Mongolic but not Turkic, Mongolic, and
(Manchu-)Tungusic all at once). On the contary, what he said over and
over again was that binary comparison would not prove the existence of
genetic relationship for the whole group. Marcel Erdal