10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY»
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glottochronology in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
glottochronology and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Archaeology and Language: Correlating archaeological and ...
The only linguistic tool which linguists have as a test of their intuitions is
glottochronology, and this has proven far from reliable. What the linguist can do,
however, using the linguistic comparative method, is to place linguistic events in
a ...
R. Blench, Matthew Spriggs, 1998
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Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I:Principles, Methods and ...
Glottochronology. Although the comparative method leads to the construction of
hierarchical tree diagrams that mirror, albeit with some simplification (as
discussed in > Section 25.3.2), the historical development of the descent of
languages ...
Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall, Thorolf Hardt, 2007
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Calculus: The Language of Change
APPLICATION. Glottochronology. A few years ago (June 27, 1995) The New York
Times discussed the work of a number of researchers on the origins of modern
languages. At the center of the article was the exciting but controversial ...
David W. Cohen, James M. Henle, 2005
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Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora
Glottochronology has also become a bone of contention among historians of
Africa who employ the comparative method of historical linguistics. Among
Africanist historians who pioneered the comparative method, Jan Vansina
objects to the ...
Edda L. Fields-Black, 2008
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Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: ...
Indeed, ever since the early days a number of persistent ambiguities have
attended methods that have gone by the names of lexicostatistics and/or
glottochronology. This article will not review the vast literature on those methods (
for that, see ...
Søren Wichmann, Anthony P. Grant, 2012
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Collecting Food, Cultivating Persons: Wild Resource Use in ...
Glottochronology remains a contested methodology for dating linguistic histories.
22 Generally, scholars critique the method for assuming that all languages share
regular and predictable rates of change in core vocabulary. Thus, this argument ...
7
Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American ...
There has been considerable controversy over the method and theory of
glottochronology, leading to widespread doubt as to its validity over the past 20
years. This doubt is fed by two streams of thought. The first is that many linguists
believe it ...
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Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament: ...
A good deal of uncertainty appears still to surround the approach of
glottochronology, and I do not suggest that it is a certainly valid one. In any case
its object is in principle a different one from that of the present study. We are not
trying to ...
Since it would be difficult at the outset to compare all the languages of large
families with each other to determine shared innovations among them all, some
suggest that a preliminary application of glottochronology may give an idea of the
...
Lisa Purse, Lyle Campbell, 2013
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Language Classification by Numbers
Embleton (2000: 145) who proposes that lexicostatistics should be applied only
to quantitative analyses of vocabulary without the further step of dating, for which
the term glottochronology should be retained: 'This . . . is the usage . . . which I ...
April McMahon, Robert McMahon, 2005
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
glottochronology is used in the context of the following news items.
Relation Between Genomes and Languages
Unfortunately, the promise of lexicostatistics (and its method, called glottochronology) became doubtful quickly after its birth. It was criticized ... «Onislam.net, Apr 15»
Massive Study Shows How Languages Change
The process they used is called "glottochronology" by linguists. Language Shaped by Culture. “One word which was earlier specialized might ... «Inside Science News Service, Sep 14»
Essay: The politics of Igbo Origin and culture
Working through what are called glottochronology and lexico-statistics, this theory explains that, as far back as five thousand years ago, the ... «P.M. News, Aug 13»
From (Almost) the Big Bang to Tara to Patrick 'The Origins of the Irish'
These final hundred pages pack a tremendous amount of data—DNA as well as glottochronology—into a few chapters. Microliths give way to ... «PopMatters, Apr 13»
Language Families in Nigeria
... the time they started sounding different from their "original" source through the science of lexicostatistics and glottochronology. An American ... «AllAfrica.com, Aug 12»
Language: The language barrier
Some critics took the paper as a return to glottochronology, a discredited method from the middle of the twentieth century — and cousin of ... «Nature.com, May 08»
