Talk:Dene-Sino-Caucasian

=Merger= Dene-Sino-Caucasian, Sino-Caucasian and Dene-Caucasian are synonymous terms according to the Dene-Caucasicists (e.g. Bengtson). I think the "Dene-Sino-Caucasian" article should be incorporated into the Dene-Caucasian one. Actually, it is not necessary to use it at all, since the information on the ancient languages is going to be mentioned in the DC one anyway. Petr
 * petr.hrubis @ gmail . com


 * I have asked J. D. Bengtson and V. Shevoroshkin. They both agree the two articles should be merged, as the three terms are synonymous, indeed. The difference is only in the time-space: Sino-Caucasian was used by S. Starostin, especially when talking only about the Eurasian sub-families, Dene-Caucasian has been used mainly by J. D. Bengtson and V. Blazhek, and V. Shevoroshkin prefers to use the terms depending on the context (Sino-Caucasian when talking only about the Eurasian ones, again, and Dene-(Sino-)Caucasian when including the American ones).

Let me quote from an email sent to me by V. Shevoroshkin:

I think, the best is to use Sino-C. when speaking about l-ges of Eurasia, and Dene-C. when adding l-ges of America; but normally I don't think much about usage. -- I also think, Blazhek's old idea about major microfamilies is the best by now (just 8 to 9 phila), but eventually the amount may grow.