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lexicostatistic — adjective pertaining to statistical methods used in studying the relations between languages (Freq. 1) lexicostatistic techniques • Pertains to noun: ↑lexicostatistics • Derivationally related forms: ↑lexicostatistics … Useful english dictionary
lexicostatistics — lexicostatistic, lexicostatistical, adj. /lek si koh steuh tis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) Ling. the statistical study of the vocabulary of a language or languages for historical purposes. Cf. glottochronology. [1955 60; LEXIC(ON) + O +… … Universalium
Morris Swadesh — (Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1909 Ciudad de México, 1967), lingüista estadounidense mexicano. También fue conocido en México como Mauricio Swadesh. Contenido 1 Biografía 1.1 Persecución política 1.2 Contribuciones … Wikipedia Español
Morris Swadesh — (January 22, 1909 July 20, 1967) was an influential and controversial American linguist. In his work, he applied basic concepts in historical linguistics to the Indigenous languages of the Americas. In Europe there was a very clear example of… … Wikipedia
Lexicostatistics — is an approach to comparative linguistics that involves quantitative comparison of lexical cognates. Lexicostatistics is related to the comparative method but does not reconstruct a proto language. It is to be distinguished from glottochronology … Wikipedia
Swadesh list — A Swadesh list is one of several lists of vocabulary with basic meanings, developed by Morris Swadesh in the 1940 50s, which is used in lexicostatistics (quantitative language relatedness assessment) and glottochronology (language divergence… … Wikipedia
Liste Swadesh — La liste Swadesh est une série de mots établie par le linguiste américain Morris Swadesh, dans les années 1940 1950, utilisée dans la linguistique historique et comparée. Pour créer sa liste, Swadesh a choisi un vocabulaire de base que l on… … Wikipédia en Français
lexicostatistics — noun a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language (Freq. 4) • Derivationally related forms: ↑lexicostatistic • Hypernyms: ↑etymology * * * “+ noun plural … Useful english dictionary
Austro-Asiatic languages — Austro Asiatic Mon–Khmer Geographic distribution: South and Southeast Asia Linguistic classification: One of the world s major language families Proto language: Proto Mon–Khmer … Wikipedia
Glottochronology — refers to methods in historical linguistics used to estimate the time at which languages diverged, based on the assumption that the basic (core) vocabulary of a language changes at a constant average rate. This assumption, originally put forward… … Wikipedia
