Languages ​​of Africa. Experience in constructing lexicostatic classification. Methodology. Koisan languages: George Starostin

The book is the first volume of a large -scale study to create a new working model of the genetic classification of languages ​​and language families of the African continent, which could present a serious alternative for the so -called The “standard model” of the classification of African languages, developed by J. Grinberg more than half a century ago and has since been repeatedly criticized for insufficient thoroughness.
The first volume of the study included an introductory part – a detailed description of the classification construction methodology, in which elements of the classic comparative historical method, the “multilateral comparison” of Greenberg and a quantitative approach to language material are synthesized; The classification is based on a lexicostatic analysis of the data of basic vocabulary, backed by careful etymological processing. The second part of the first volume tests the described technique on the material of the smallest and, in many respects, “mysterious” from hypothetical macosemia gr …

Author
Starostin Georgy Sergeevich
Publisher
Languages ​​of Slavic cultures, 2013