TY - BOOK ID - 1717723 TI - Language classification AU - Campbell, Lyle AU - Poser, William John PY - 2008 SN - 9780521880053 052188005X 9780511486906 0511414501 9780511412899 0511412894 9780511414503 9780511415180 0511415184 9780511413810 0511413815 1107184126 1281751170 9786611751173 0511486901 0511411960 9781107184121 9781281751171 6611751173 9780511411960 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Comparative linguistics. KW - Language and languages. KW - Classificatie. KW - Talen. KW - Sprachtypologie. KW - Sprachfamilie. KW - Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft. KW - Comparative philology KW - Philology, Comparative KW - Historical linguistics KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Language and languages - Classification UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1717723 AB - How are relationships established between the world's languages? This is one of the most topical and most controversial questions in contemporary linguistics. The central aims of this book are to answer this question, to cut through the controversies, and to contribute to research in distant genetic relationships. In doing this the authors aim to: (1) show how the methods have been employed; (2) reveal which methods, techniques, and strategies have proven successful and which ones have proven ineffective; (3) determine how particular language families were established; (4) evaluate several of the most prominent and more controversial proposals of distant genetic relationship (such as Amerind, Nostratic, Eurasiatic, Proto-World, and others); and (5) make recommendations for practice in future research. This book will contribute significantly to understanding language classification in general. ER -