Hannes Fellner
Word families, allofams, and the comparative method
Fellner, Hannes; Hill, Nathan W.
Abstract
Linguists researching the Trans-Himalayan family do not have a self-perception as working outside the mainstream of historical linguistics, but ‘word families’ and ‘allofams’ are important elements in their thinking despite the absence of these terms in the wider discipline. A close examination of the practice of historical linguistics in Indo-European and Trans-Himalayan leads to the conclusion that those phenomena treated as word families admit superior analyses in more traditional terms.
Citation
Fellner, H., & Hill, N. W. (2019). Word families, allofams, and the comparative method. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 48(2), 91-124. https://doi.org/10.1163/19606028-04802001
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 2, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 27, 2019 |
Publication Date | Nov 1, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Dec 2, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 2, 2019 |
Journal | Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale |
Print ISSN | 0153-3320 |
Electronic ISSN | 1960-6028 |
Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 48 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 91-124 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1163/19606028-04802001 |
Keywords | Trans-Himalayan; Sino-Tibetan; Indo-European; word families; allofams; methodology |
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2019. This is the accepted version of an article published by Brill in Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, on 27 November 2019. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1163/19606028-04802001
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