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Hymes, Dell H., “Morris Swadesh: From the First Yale School to World Prehistory,” in The Origin and Diversification of Language, by Morris Swadesh, Chicago: Aldine Atherton, 1971 Lamb, Sidney M., and E. Douglas Mitchell, editors, Sprung from Some Common Source: Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991
Morris Swadesh, The origin and diversification of language. Edited by Joel F. Sherzer; Introduction by Dell Hymes. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1971. Pp. xvii + 350. - Volume 1 Issue 2
Liste Swadesh. La liste Swadesh est une liste de mots appartenant à une partie du lexique la plus résistante au changement, établie par le linguiste et anthropologue américain Morris Swadesh, dans les années 1940 - 1950. Elle est utilisée en linguistique comparée, en linguistique historique et aussi en anthropologie pour notamment ...
9 de nov. de 2020 · Morris Swadesh (1909–1967) was an influential mid-twentieth-century Americanist and linguist, who specialized in language origins and comparative relationships. He is noted for proposing the tool of glottochronology, using lexical statistics to attempt to determine how closely two languages might be related by examining lists of supposedly cross-culturally universal terms.
The Swadesh list was put together by Morris Swadesh on the basis of his intuitions. More recent similar lists, such as the Dolgopolsky list (1964) or the Leipzig–Jakarta list (2009), are based on systematic data from many different languages, but they are not yet as widely known nor as widely used as the Swadesh list.
Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evolution of language. This volume, left nearly completed at his death and edited posthumously by Joel F. Sherzer, is his last major study of this difficult subject.Swadesh discusses the simple qualities of human speech also present in animal language ...
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