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Article #2023Re: Bulgarians - descendents of a Finnis tribe?
From: Hubey
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 21:54
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 21:54
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In article <1993Jan4.205115.8521@leland.Stanford.EDU> alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes: > In article <1993Jan4.071434.27930@jyu.fi>, ryyti@jyu (Jarmo Ryyti) writes: > >Rich Alderson (alderson@cisco.com) wrote: > In the nineteenth century, one accepted methodology for positing relationship > among languages was morphological typology--the famous "inflecting" versus > "agglutinating" versus "isolating" spectrum. However, it was shown *during the > nineteenth century* that this is *not* a reasonable methodology. > Would you please explain the basis for the original confidence in the methodology and then the later loss of confidence ? What makes it unreasonable as a measure. I'm not claiming Uralic and Altaic belong together. It's just a question of why the method was abandoned and what method replaced it and why ? -- mark hubey@amiga.montclair.edu hubey@apollo.montclair.edu hubey@pilot.njin.net ...!rutgers!pilot!hubey
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!pilot.njin.net!hubey From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Bulgarians - descendents of a Finnis tribe? Message-ID: <Jan.4.16.54.01.1993.22727@pilot.njin.net> Date: 4 Jan 93 21:54:01 GMT References: <1992Dec30.211917.2524@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan4.071434.27930@jyu.fi> <1993Jan4.205115.8521@leland.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25