Browsing by Subject "Lexicostatistics"

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Open Access
    De la glotocronología a la filogenética: estado de la cuestión y los nuevos desarrollos en la metodología de clasificación lingüística
    (Universidad de Murcia: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2019) Muñoz, Javier
    En el presente artículo tratamos de mostrar una panorámica en la evolución de los estudios y la datación de lenguas antiguas y protolenguas. La glotocronología iniciada por M. Swadesh, pese a las polémicas y críticas suscitadas, ha evolucionado enormememente gracias a la incorporación de elementos estadísticos y etimológicos. Las nuevas metodologías utilizan grandes bases de datos y métodos relacionados con la filogenética. Proyectos como Ielex, ASJP o GDL muestran la importancia de la léxico-estadística actualmente y constituyen un elemento de gran valor para los investigadores así como un campo con enormes posibilidades dentro del aula.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Open Access
    Tras las huellas de Mauricio Swadesh: en búsqueda de una lingüística "total"
    (2017-02-16) Swiggers, Pierre
    The notion of "antecedents" in the historiography of linguistics calls for a number of observations, concerning, e.g., the relevance and the justification of any reference to 'precursors'. An even more interesting question concerns the motivation underlying the identification of 'antecedents'. Basically, the reference to antecedents implies some kind of 'association', a type of 'solidarity' with ideas, techniques, projects formulated in the past. While this 'association' or 'solidarity' may seem a purely subjective affair, upon close inspection one detects an 'objective foundation', in the form of cognitive elements that appear in techniques, methods or models identified as methodological, or epistemological, antecedents. These objective cognitive elements gain in significance when they are tied up with views on the general nature of language, seen in its broader social and cultural context. An 'inspiring antecedent' in this respect is Morris (Mauricio) Swadesh, a student of Edward Sapir, who became one of the leading linguists in the second quarter of the 20th century. Although he is probably better (or best) known for his "technical", "theoretical", and "methodological" contributions and innovations -the phonemic principle; the morphophoneme as a solution for phonological alternations; glottochronology or lexicostatistics-, his most inspiring ideas can be found in two of his more general works (written in Spanish) on linguistics, La nueva filología and El lenguaje y la vida humana.