On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison : Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 82, Part 1)
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0871698218
ISBN-13
9780871698216
Publisher
American Philosophical Society Press
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American Philosophical Society Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1992
Print length
110 Pages
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Linguistics
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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 of chance resemblances; only elementary probability theory is needed to address the problem. The author discusses strictly limited, tightly controlled types of similarity between words, because those are easiest to understand & analyze; then he discusses more complex cases. Illustrations.
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