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040 _aBO-LpMNE
041 _aeng
092 _sE
_aSEN-ETH-S(98)/2018
100 1 _aKalyan, Siva
245 _aFreeing the comparative method from the tree model: a framework for historical glottometry.
_cSiva Kalyan
260 _aOsaka-JP :
_bNational Museum Ethnology,
_c2018.
300 _apáginas 59-89:
_bilustraciones en blanco y negro.
362 _ano. 98 (2018)
490 _aSenri Ethnological Studies ;
_vno. 98
520 _aSince the beginnings of historical linguistics, the family tree has been the most widely accepted model for representing historical relations between languages. While this sort of representation is easy to grasp, and allows for a simple, attractive account of the development of a language family, the assumptions made by the tree model are applicable in only a small number of cases: namely, when a speaker population undergoes successive splits followed by complete loss of contact. A tree structure is unsuited for dealing with dialect continua, and language families that develop out of dialect continua ("linkages", as Ross 1988 calls them); in these situations, the scopes of innovations (their isoglosses) are not nested, but rather they constantly intersect, so that any proposed tree representation is met with abundant counterexamples. In this paper, we define "Historical Glottometry", a new method capable of identifying and representing genealogical subgroups even when they intersect. We apply this glottometric method to a specific linkage, consisting of 17 Oceanic languages spoken in northern Vanuatu.
653 _aANTROPOLOGIA
653 _aLINGUISTICA
653 _aLENGUAS OCEANICAS
773 0 _0304354
_977811
_aNational Museum of Ethnology
_dOsaka-JP : National Museum Ethnology, 2018.
_oHEMREV035277
_tSenri Ethnological Studies ;
_w(BO-LP-MUSEF)MUSEF-HEM-PPE-091715
810 _aNational Museum of Ethnology Osaka.
850 _aBO-LpMNE
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_cPPE
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