Alexander Akulov - Manual of comparative linguistics

• Название: Manual of comparative linguistics
• Автор: Alexander Akulov
• Жанр: Языкознание

The book is about precise typological methods of comparative linguistics: Prefixation Ability Index and Verbal Grammar Correlation Index. These two methods allow us to detect very distant relationship of languages by direct comparison of their structures and without making reconstructions.

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Due to “completely isolated” position among languages of the world Ainu is especially attractive material for perfunctory and amateurish hypotheses.

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This type of linear model of word form is named “American type” since it has been described mainly on the material of Native American languages (especially of North America)

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This type of linear model of word form is named “Altaiс type” since this linear model has been described mainly on the material of languages of so called Altaic stock.

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PAN means Proto-Austronesian; “^” is sign of grammar/structure correlation