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

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

Jr.

Paperback

Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Book 1423

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0871698218
ISBN13: 9780871698216
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 1992
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.31 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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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