On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 82, Part 1)

by Don Ringe

While all human languages are likely to be genetically related, the remoter relationships cannot be demonstrated by reliable linguistic methods because the languages in question have diverged too much. Any demonstration of a relationship between languages depends on finding words & grammatical affixes of systematically similar shape & roughly equivalent meaning in the languages in question. This book addresses the practical aspects of the problem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871698218
• ISBN13: 9780871698216
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 110 Pages