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Historical Linguistics: A cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
[Not in series 227] 2020
► pp. 185–212

Chapter 9
Methodology

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Theory and method
  • 2.Text-based data
    • 2.1Philology
      • 2.1.1Definitions
      • 2.1.2Challenges
    • 2.2Corpus data and mining
  • 3.Reconstruction
    • 3.1Underlying assumptions
      • 3.1.1Relationships among languages
      • 3.1.2The ultimate single form
      • 3.1.3The regularity hypothesis
      • 3.1.4Occam’s Razor
      • 3.1.5Hypothesis construction
    • 3.2Comparative reconstruction
      • 3.2.1Language family data
      • 3.2.2Correspondence sets
      • 3.2.3Testing the reconstruction
      • 3.2.4Limitations
    • 3.3Phylogenesis
    • 3.4Internal reconstruction
      • 3.4.1Some examples
      • 3.4.2Limitations
    • 3.5Syntactic reconstruction
    • 3.6Combining methods
    • 3.7Shortcomings and challenges in reconstruction
  • 4.Philology and reconstruction compared and combined
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Exercises
  • For further investigation
  • Notes