[GAELIC-L] Guatemalan brothers

[J P Maher]

Granting for the sake of argument that there is a distinction between Glottochronolgy and Lexicostatistics, ia it possible for non-chronological Lexicostatistics to handle e.g. the corpus from Lyle Campbell's Guatemalan brothers, whose glottochronologic separation was 1500 years ago?--  What am I missing?

j p maher
 



 

[Marion Gunn]

Post by J P Maher
Granting for the sake of argument that there is a distinction
between Glottochronolgy and Lexicostatistics, ia it possible
for non-chronological Lexicostatistics > to handle e.g. the corpus
from Lyle Campbell's Guatemalan brothers, whose glottochronologic
separation was 1500 years ago?-- What am I missing?

Missing any Manx, Scottish or Irish context, which is a sine qua non for
this list.

Can you bring your comments back to within that wide but distinctive
remit, JP?

Le dea-mhéin,
mg

Post by J P Maher
j p maher

[J P Maher]

Dear MG

I'm afraid all I can add is "mutatis mutandis". So, you can just drop it..
best
 jp maher


PS:
In Italian "mutate le mutande" (or mutandine) is 'having changed the underwear'.




--- On Fri, 12/10/10, Marion Gunn <***@UCD.IE> wrote:

From: Marion Gunn <***@UCD.IE>
Subject: Re: [GAELIC-L] Guatemalan brothers
To: GAELIC-***@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 10:45 AM

Post by J P Maher
Granting for the sake of argument that there is a distinction
between Glottochronolgy and Lexicostatistics, ia it possible
for non-chronological Lexicostatistics > to handle e.g. the corpus
from Lyle Campbell's Guatemalan brothers, whose glottochronologic
separation was 1500 years ago?--  What am I missing?

Missing any Manx,
Scottish or Irish context, which is a sine qua non for this list.

Can you bring your comments back to within that wide but distinctive remit, JP?

Le dea-mhéin,
mg

Post by J P Maher
j p maher