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comparative linguistics

noun

  1. the study of the correspondences between languages that have a common origin.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • comparative linguist noun
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"Researchers have worked on this for decades, mostly in France and Russia, but they were met with little success," Eugen Hill, a professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Cologne who did not participate in the study, said in the video.

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By a method termed glotto-chronology, based on calculations of how rapidly words tend to change over historical time, comparative linguistics can even yield estimated dates for domestications or crop arrivals.

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If your safety school was strong in physics but you later discover a love of comparative linguistics, you may wish that you had chosen a college or university with stronger international programs.

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Actually I am not only a musicologist, but a social scientist who's worked for many years with a database I encoded and helped design, and published peer reviewed scientific studies on semiotics, cultural evolution and the comparative study of musical styles throughout the world, research comparable to comparative linguistics, though unfortunately not as widely known.

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Now it has begun to draw other languages, other peoples and their histories, into its sphere; it has, through the mediation of comparative linguistics, already struck up, though as yet somewhat cautiously, a friendship with physiology.

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