The whole article seemed somewhat incoherent to me. First, prescriptivism was around before Chomsky was born. Second, I am not aware than any of those linguists who have posited Proto-Indo-European have imagined a population of Proto-Indo-Europeans to speak it. (Yes, some have unfortunately posited the Aryans, and imagined all sorts of history for them.)
The whole article seemed somewhat incoherent to me. First, prescriptivism was around before Chomsky was born. Second, I am not aware than any of those linguists who have posited Proto-Indo-European have imagined a population of Proto-Indo-Europeans to speak it. (Yes, some have unfortunately posited the Aryans, and imagined all sorts of history for them.)
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