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On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison - Couverture souple

Jr., Donald A. Ringe

 
9780871698216: On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0871698218 ISBN 13 : 9780871698216
Editeur : American Philosophical Society Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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Éditeur
American Philosophical Society Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0871698218
ISBN 13 
9780871698216
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
110
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Personne responsable
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