Miscellaneous Comic undated. Again, he claims that "[h]istorical method requires that the facts of each subgroup or family be established separately before being compared with each other. Moreover, pioneering IndoEuropeanists such as Rasmus Rask, one of the founders of comparative IndoEuropean linguistics at the beginning of the nineteenth century, did not hesitate to apply the comparative method to other languages around the world, and it was in fact Rask who first recognized that Aleut and Eskimo form a family in the same manner as do the Indo-European groups enumerated by Jones. Kung N2 gil,! The material available on Wiyot and Yurok at this time was scanty, and Sapir did not expect that every etymological connection he proposed would stand up to scrutiny; he did, however, firmly believe that he had proved his case: "I am well aware of the probability that a considerable number of my lexical and morphological parallels will, on maturer knowledge, have to be thrown out of court; I cannot hope to have always hit the nail on the head.
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