By Henry M. Hoenigswald (auth.)
ISBN-10: 9401025312
ISBN-13: 9789401025317
ISBN-10: 9401025339
ISBN-13: 9789401025331
These separate yet comparable essays owe their life to a mixed crisis for the workings of textual content feedback and historic linguistics and for the heritage of scholarship in those fields. On past events i've got advised yes perspectives at the improvement of the so-called comparative technique. Few issues are extra worthwhile than to carry implicit preconceptions of the earlier and current out into the open, as I aimed to do then and as I target to do now. This time present culture is handled as a physique - with out, i'm hoping, being heavily distorting - and one small element of its operating assumptions is tested. My thank you visit the colleagues and scholars with whom i've got had fruitful dialogue, yet particularly to Zellig S. Harris, and to Henry Hiz who expended even more than simply his very good editorial care on those efforts. I in basic terms wish that i've got realized as a lot from him as he has patiently attempted to educate me. Lloyd W. Daly has kindly learn components of an past model and has contri buted worthwhile suggestions.
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B 50 8. STUDIES IN FORMAL HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Generally (that is, in the noded tree) the distances for A, B, and Care A B B C d+b d+c b+c Fig. 83. (Section 6). If A, B, and C, are simultaneous, they enter either into the IVc tree (no. 7) or into one of the IVa trees (nos. I, 2, 3). In the case of the IVc tree, where the ancestor coincides with the node, d, b, and c are equal to one another, so that B ~ I 2a C 2d 2d Fig. 84. , no. 3), d equals b, and the distances are B 2a A B C d+c d+c Fig. 85.
Language trifurcation is often posited. Examination may show, however, that the features shared by two or by all three pairs of daughter languages against each third, unpaired language are, in part, innovations. This fails to fit not only IVc (the trifurcated tree) but the other trees as well (Section 24). 70 The latter suspicion is strengthened when we find only two and not all three pairs carrying innovations. Suppose that the pairs A-B and A-C do carry innovations, while THE THREE-WITNESS PROBLEM 45 B-C does not; this might suggest that the speakers of Band C were not in contact with each other.
5. Asin the case of manuscripts (granting that some errors can be recognized as such) the matching, called 'comparison', of two languages may have one of two kinds of result. Either, one contains all the innovations, or each contains at least one. In the first case the reconstruction collapses with one of the two given languages (say, A) which is then 'like' the ancestor of the other (B). Since it is known that all language changes, the conclusion is that A 'is' the ancestor of B and may be predicted to precede B in real time.
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