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Observations on Robert Lafont’s Schèmes et motivation: le lexique du latin classique, L’Harmattan, Paris / Montréal 2000, 394 pages. R. Lafont’s work is a stimulating book which gives us cause for reflection on Latin, Indo-European, and languages in general. Some analyses are illuminating, but too many approximations, errors, and above all, an absence of evidence spoil this work. It is a « seminal » book: it spreads ideas but it does not represent a convincing synthesis because its author makes use of assertions rather than proof.

Key words: linguistics, Indo-European, Latin, lexicography, motivation of the sign