Comments on methodology and evidence in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics
- This paper presents epistemological and methodological problems found in work on the subgrouping of Sino-Tibetan languages and the reconstruction of features of the languages. A key problem is the lack of an accepted standard for judging this work, one that can stand up to statistical evaluation. An alternative methodology that involves using fixed sets of features to give us the statistical probability of common origin is suggested.
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| Author: | Randy J. LaPolla |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-380209 |
| URL: | http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/randylapolla/papers/LaPolla_2012_Comments_on_methodology_and_evidence_in_Sino-Tibetan_comparative_linguistics.pdf |
| ISSN: | 1606-822X |
| Parent Title (English): | Language and linguistics = Yuyan-ji-yuyanxue, 13.1 (2012), S. 117-132 |
| Publisher: | Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica |
| Place of publication: | Taibei |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2012 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2015/09/09 |
| GND Keyword: | Sinotibetische Sprachen; Methodologie; Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Kontrastive Linguistik |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 16 |
| First Page: | 117 |
| Last Page: | 132 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 370945328 |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Kontrastive Linguistik / Contrastive linguistics | |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
