Fellner, Hannes and Hill, Nathan W. (2019) 'Word families, allofams, and the comparative method.' Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 48 (2). pp. 91-124.
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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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | Trans-Himalayan; Sino-Tibetan; Indo-European; word families; allofams; methodology |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics > Department of Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 01533320 |
| Copyright Statement: | © 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 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1163/19606028-04802001 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2019 10:19 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/32030 |
| Funders: | European Union |
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