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Comparative method

In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor and then extrapolating backwards to infer the properties of that ancestor. The comparative method may be contrasted with the method of internal…

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related to Comparative linguistics · 24
Comparative method → Although Hermann Grassmann, Both Rask, Deutsche Grammatik, Fairy Tales, Franz Bopp, Friedrich Schlegel, German, Germanic, Grassmann's, Greek, Grimm, He, In, Indo-European, Jacob Grimm, Jones, Karl Verner, Latin, PIE, Proto-Indo-European
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Comparative method → Archived, California, Classics, Comparative, December, Department, Everything, Gordon, Hubbard, Kathleen, Linguistics, Matthew, October, PDF, Proto-Indo-European, Retrieved, Santa Barbara, Texas Department, University, Week
related to Step 4, reconstruct proto-phonemes · 15
Comparative method → Armenian, Athabaskan, Bearlake, Classical Armenian, For, However, If, It, Proto-Athabaskan, Several, Similarly, Slavey, The, The Proto-Indo-European, Typology
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Comparative method → Aryans, Childe, Fox, Gustaf Kossinna, In, Indo-European, Kossinna, Kossinna's Law, Siedlungsarchaologie, The, Those, Ursprache, Vere Gordon Childe's The, World War II
related to Neo-grammarian approach · 12
Comparative method → Hermann Osthoff, Indo-European, Junggrammatiker, Karl Brugmann, Leipzig, Linguists, Neogrammarians, Proto-Indo-European, Similar, That, The Neogrammarian, University
related to The Neogrammarian principle · 5
Comparative method → Neogrammarians, Several, The, Unless, When
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Comparative method → Lyle Campbell, Terry Crowley, There, This
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Comparative method → technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor and then ex…

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and the shape of the loans matches the forms that have been reconstructed for Proto-Germanicinstance ofFinnic languages0.80text
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