A Methodological Problem in Comparative Procedure

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Other Title
  • 比較言語學における共通音韻定立の限界
  • The MP.*γ.
  • マライ・ポリネシア語における*γについて

Abstract

Mr. I. Dyen of Yale (Lg. 29) has rigorously distinguished five series of phonological correspondences or ‘reflexes’ of the MP.*γ Awhich he replaces with *R (cf.§3, with examples §1 to §4). In reality, however, one can, by way of rigorous procedure, establish or distinguish much more series of correspondences almost to the infinity (§6-§8) and is thence enforced to establish infinite distinctions in the similar-a fact which, in linguistic comparison, would annul the meaning of the distinctions “rigorously” established. Where the meaning of the distinctions is lost, they might be methodologically meaningless, too (§9).

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  • CRID
    1390282680098882176
  • NII Article ID
    130003564957
  • DOI
    10.11435/gengo1939.1955.10
  • ISSN
    21856710
    00243914
  • Text Lang
    en
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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