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Jon Gauthier
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Was disappointed with the somewhat hand-wavy internal reconstruction chapter until I got to the exercises. The majority of the exercises at this point are open-ended questions about real-world data, and some of the problems here were a lot of fun.
— Nov 20, 2012 08:46PM
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Jon Gauthier
is on page 323 of 332
Finished the last chapter—time to pick through a meaty bibliography.
— Nov 29, 2012 06:26AM
Jon Gauthier
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And I thought some of the previous chapters were hand-wavy...
— Nov 25, 2012 08:39PM
Jon Gauthier
is on page 104 of 332
Guided reconstruction of a proto-Polynesian language based on a small data set. Very cool!
— Nov 17, 2012 02:11PM
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Thanks for the feedback. I went ahead and ordered a copy on a whim about a week ago when I saw how cheap it was on Amazon. Not that I have time to dig in soon, but flipping through it has me determined to read it as soon as possible. I still plan to review some more fundamental linguistics, if possible (it's been ~20 years since I really studied it). Who knows, though, maybe I'll try to read this concurrently.
I'm really enjoying this so far, though it's difficult to separate my impression of the work from my impression of the subject :)