A review of Fellner and Hill’s “Word families, allofams, and the comparative method”

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale Pub Date : 2019-11-27 DOI:10.1163/19606028-04802007

G. Thurgood

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Abstract

Fellner and Hill (this volume) argue that the recourse to the notion of word families has prevented scholars specializing in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics from working out regular sound correspondences. This paper disputes this evaluation of the state of the art in the field, and suggests that F&H’s appraisal is due to severe misunderstandings.

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费尔纳和希尔的《词族、异源性和比较方法》述评

Fellner和Hill（本卷）认为，对语族概念的求助使专门研究汉藏比较语言学的学者无法找出有规律的声音对应关系。本文对这种对该领域最新技术的评估提出质疑，并认为F&H的评估是由于严重的误解。

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Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： The Cahiers is an international linguistics journal whose mission is to publish new and original research on the analysis of languages of the Asian region, be they descriptive or theoretical. This clearly reflects the broad research domain of our laboratory : the Centre for Linguistic Research on East Asian Languages (CRLAO). The journal was created in 1977 by Viviane Alleton and Alain Peyraube and has been directed by three successive teams of editors, all professors based at the CRLAO in Paris. An Editorial Board, composed of scholars from around the world, assists in the reviewing process and in a consultative role.