| 单词 | areal linguistics |
| 释义 | > as lemmasareal linguistics 2. Linguistics. Of, pertaining, or relating to the comparative study of languages or dialects in terms of geographical distribution and contact rather than historical development: frequently as areal linguistics, areal linguistic adj.; hence less precisely (of distribution, etc.), geographical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [adjective] > comparative linguistics areal1944 cross-linguistic1954 1944 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 64 177 The areal theory of linguistics..has been developed and brought into a system by the Italian neolinguistic school. 1945 Word 1 137 In many cases—perhaps in most—what Brugmann, Meillet, and all the other Indo-Europeanists of the older generation called comparative method or comparison between languages is nothing else than areal linguistics avant la lettre. 1967 Jrnl. Linguistics 3 170 The absence of any discussion of the ‘areal linguistic’ position of the Neolinguists..is indicative. 1968 Language 44 170 The argument that areal phenomena deserve more serious consideration than they have received can scarcely be disputed. 1968 D. L. Bolinger Aspects of Lang. 139 When [the linguist] speaks of dialectology, it is almost always in this sense, more specifically referred to as ‘linguistic geography’, ‘areal linguistics’, or ‘dialect geography’. 1972 K. R. Jankowsky Neogrammarians 157 An illustration is seen in what happened to one of the most famous areal linguists, Georg Wenker. He set out to prove, with areal linguistic means, the existence of a definite linguistic boundary. 1980 A. R. Thomas (title) Areal analysis of dialect data by computer: a Welsh example. 1985 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 30 199 Perhaps what similarities we see in putatively distantly related languages are areal rather than genetic. < as lemmas |
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