On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history
Some techniques and case studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344819 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony P Grant (Edge Hill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 277-300 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diachronica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/dia.27.2.06gra |
| OpenAlex | W1978213006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Following certain aspects of the work on lexicostatistics carried out in the 1960s and published thereafter (Hooley 1971, Miller et al. 1971, Miller 1984) and thereby working in a tradition which has most recently been practised by Ringe et al. (1997, 2001), among others, I maintain that much of lasting value can be learned about linguistic interrelationships by using techniques which have been developed in work on qualitative (rather than merely quantitative) lexicostatistics, using character-based methods
Epistemology · Linguistics · Miller · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |