Mass lexical comparison | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-28

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00:00:58 1 Theory
00:03:28 1.1 Detection of borrowings
00:06:49 1.2 The place of sound correspondences in the comparative method
00:09:41 1.3 Summary
00:10:51 2 Disputed legacy of the comparative method
00:11:22 2.1 Position of Greenberg's detractors
00:13:06 2.2 Response of Greenberg's defenders
00:20:30 2.3 A continuation of earlier methods?
00:22:50 2.4 Time limits of the comparative method
00:26:43 3 Toward a resolution of the conflict?
00:27:46 4 See also



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Mass comparison is a method developed by Joseph Greenberg to determine the level of genetic relatedness between languages. It is now usually called multilateral comparison. The method is rejected by most linguists (Campbell 2001, p. 45), though not all.
Some of the top-level relationships Greenberg named had already been posited by others and are now generally accepted (e.g. Afro-Asiatic and Niger–Congo). Others are accepted by many though disputed by some prominent specialists (e.g. Nilo-Saharan), others are predominantly rejected but have some defenders (e.g. Eurasiatic), while others are almost universally rejected (e.g. Khoisan and Amerind).