Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Historical linguistics"
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Computer-Assisted Language Comparison: State of the Art
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2020)Historical language comparison opens windows onto a human past, long before the availability of written records. Since traditional language comparison within the framework of the comparative method is largely based on ... -
Tibetan *-as > -os
(2016)Both Jacques (2010) and Zeisler (2015) propose explanations for the synchronically unexpected past zos of the Tibetan verb 'eat'. After evaluating their proposals, this essay suggests that zos is the regular outcome of ... -
Word families, allofams, and the comparative method
(2019)Linguists researching the Trans-Himalayan family do not have a self-perception as working outside the mainstream of historical linguistics, but ‘word families’ and ‘allofams’ are important elements in their thinking despite ...