Word families, allofams, and the comparative method
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Fellner, Hannes A., Hill, Nathan W., Word families, allofams, and the comparative method, Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 48, 2, 2019, 91-124Abstract:
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 the absence of these terms in the wider discipline. A close examination of the practice of historical linguistics in Indo-European and Trans-Himalayan leads to the conclusion that those phenomena treated as word families admit superior analyses in more traditional terms.
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Author: Hill, Nathan
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Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale;48;
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Historical linguistics, Trans-HimalayanDOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19606028-04802001ISSN:
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