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- From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Bulgarians - descendents of a Finnis tribe?
- Message-ID: <Jan.4.16.54.01.1993.22727@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 21:54:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.211917.2524@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan4.071434.27930@jyu.fi> <1993Jan4.205115.8521@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan4.205115.8521@leland.Stanford.EDU> alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
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- > In article <1993Jan4.071434.27930@jyu.fi>, ryyti@jyu (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
- > >Rich Alderson (alderson@cisco.com) wrote:
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- > In the nineteenth century, one accepted methodology for positing relationship
- > among languages was morphological typology--the famous "inflecting" versus
- > "agglutinating" versus "isolating" spectrum. However, it was shown *during the
- > nineteenth century* that this is *not* a reasonable methodology.
- >
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- Would you please explain the basis for the original confidence in
- the methodology and then the later loss of confidence ? What
- makes it unreasonable as a measure.
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- I'm not claiming Uralic and Altaic belong together. It's just
- a question of why the method was abandoned and what method replaced
- it and why ?
- --
-
- mark
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