Well, here I am!In How to Argue with Zompist, Zompist wrote: Someone (unfortunately I forget who) mentioned that the best thing an academic can have is a good enemy. Your friends will, perhaps, read through your papers and make a few comments. But only an enemy will read through an entire book, for free, finding every error and questionable statement.
I'd printed out the pE grammar to browse off-line, and I found an error that was pretty damn obvious. Can't remember what. So I decided to look for more errors.
Here's what I found (and I didn't check the paradigms; if they're wrong I'll inform you later.)
1. Hmm, maybe you should make the phonological constraints more specific...I doubt the Easterners allowed [kx].
2. The Cad'inor sound change m>n _#...man, I feel bad about calling you out on this, since you'd have to change accusatives in 4 languages. But here I thought it was a good thing to point out.
3. Axunašin sound change p,f,r,l>0 _#. I think you mean, from the examples, _# or _C. Also, the sound change f>v V_V doesn't seem to be there.
4. Comparative declension of masculine *ktats...you use ch in Axunašin, where you mean č. Same problem in the same declension class, with *aytsas.
5. Similar Cad'inor typo in the pronouns...you use <th>, where you mean <t'>.
6. And, oh god, an Obenzayet problem...the comperative conjugation of the Past Definite should say bakšia, bakšiaz, etc., for the descendent of *bektir..but for all but the 3p, it borrows from the klāger descendant.
7. Imperfect error: It says, "attested in the Central and Naviu families." You mean, "attested in the Karazi and Naviu families."
And that's all I can find! Can you fix this at some point, so I can print out the corrected version?
