The Neogrammarians did not, however, regard regular sound correspondences or comparative reconstructions as relevant to the proof of genetic relationship between languages.
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Ehret s 2001 book, " A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan ", has had a mixed reception.
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Dravidian was recognized in the mid-19th century by Robert Caldwell ( 1856 ), well before the publication of Schleicher's comparative reconstructions.
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Greenberg rejected the view, prevalent among linguists since the mid-20th century, that comparative reconstruction was the only tool to discover relationships between languages.
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According to him, comparative reconstruction should have the status of an explanatory theory for facts already established by language classification ( Greenberg, 1957 : 45 ).
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Critics of mass comparison generally assume that mass comparison has no means to distinguish borrowed forms from inherited ones, unlike comparative reconstruction, which is able to do so through regular sound correspondences.
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He argued that genetic classification is methodologically prior to comparative reconstruction, or the first stage of it : you cannot engage in the comparative reconstruction of languages until you know which languages to compare ( 1957 : 44 ).
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He argued that genetic classification is methodologically prior to comparative reconstruction, or the first stage of it : you cannot engage in the comparative reconstruction of languages until you know which languages to compare ( 1957 : 44 ).
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Edward Vajda, noted for his recent proposal of George Starostin, a member of the Moscow school, argues that Greenberg's work, while perhaps not going beyond inspection, presents interesting sets of forms that call for further scrutiny by comparative reconstruction, specifically with regard to the proposed Khoisan and Amerind families.
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