The genealogical tree of the IE family offered by Heggarty et al. is not convincing for the following reasons: (a) some important nodes have very low probability; (b) the tree is poorly resolved (see below); (c) some important nodes contradict…
Do ‘language trees with sampled ancestors’ really support a ‘hybrid model’ for the origin of Indo-European? Thoughts on the most recent attempt at yet another IE phylogeny
