|
so:text
|
The severe difficulties in attempting a rigorous reconstruction of Proto-Tibeto-Burman on this basis have not prevented certain hardy souls from leaping to ever more far-flung comparisons in an attempt to say something about the great Sino-Tibetan proto-language. There are no doubt those who would have tried to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European simply on the testimony of Provençal, Avestan, and Old Norse. We are only now becoming more realistic. It seems wiser to concentrate for the time being on reconstructing PTB sub-group by sub-group... (en) |
