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...
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Main Author: | LaPolla, Randy J. |
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Other Authors: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2014
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96242 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20451 http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/v7-1-3.asp.htm |
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