Glottochronology, its principles and results

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BLAŽEK Václav

Year of publication 2013
Type Chapter of a book
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Faculty of Arts

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Description In the article one of quantitative methods of the genealogical classification of languages is introduced, so-called recalibrated glottochronology. This method allows us to generate not only a hierarchized model of mutual relations in a group of related languages in a for of the tree-diagram, i.e. cladistics, but also to establish an absolute chronology of partial divergencies between ancestors of analyzed languages. The theoretical apparatus is applied to the old Germanic languages.
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