Anthropology and many other current fields are the intellectual results of the comparative methods developed in the earlier 19th century.
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:: : : : : The comparative method tells us very little about " how languages were pronounced, " though.
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Where languages are derived from a very distant ancestor, and are thus more distantly related, the comparative method becomes impracticable.
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Like most other proto-languages, it is not attested by any surviving texts but has been reconstructed using the comparative method.
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This controversy of the late 19th century profoundly shaped modern approaches to the comparative method in historical linguistics and in creolistics.
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They argue for a full application of the comparative method to the modern varieties, supplemented by systematic use of transcription data.
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It has also been used to infer information about earlier stages of PIE than can be reached by the comparative method.
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The main method he employed was that of internal reconstruction as Basque has no known genetic relatives, rendering comparative methods unworkable.
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The lexicostatistics method is a simple and fast technique relative to the comparative method but has limitations ( discussed below ).
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Linguists working with other families soon followed suit, and the comparative method quickly became the established method for uncovering linguistic relationships.
