evolution of linguistics classifications methodologies
Estado de la cuestión y los nuevos desarrollos en la metodología de clasificación lingüística
Abstract
In this work we try to make a panoramic view of the different methodologies applied to date ancient and proto-languages. The inicial effort of M. Swadesh, highly criticised, had evolved to new methods linked with database and phylogenetics. Our goal is to show how this new methodology can help the scholar and how to apply this in a linguistics or a history of the language clashroom. Projects like Ielex, ASJP or GDL show the importance of l exicostatistics and constitute a field with a great potential in teaching and research.
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