"The extent to which one can accept or deny the premises of ‘archaeo-linguistics’ depends on the extent of one’s faith…"

"All prehistoric reconstruction is of course purely hypothetical, that is, based on conjectural assumptions. Strictly …"

"The apparent existence of a common term in the language, which is attained through reconstruction on the basis of the…"

"The linguist J. Fraser (1926),for example, presented a well-known (but faulty) caricature of the whole enterprise by …"

"Now the more sophisticated among us could easily object here that it would take a great deal of naivete on the part o…"

"The English language has laid under contribution almost every language on the face of the earth. We speak freely of t…"

"The determination of the Indo-European civilization is precisely the point which affords least hope of any satisfacto…"

"The arbitrary and unrigorous methods that have characterized much of this linguistic paleontology certainly deserve R…"

"The clues afforded by linguistic paleontology were either so general that they accommodated both centres without much…"

"Most recently, Krell (1998) argued that "the old, pliable crutch of linguistic paleontology should certainly be aband…"