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Download full textBender, M. Lionel – 1995
In this paper, the multilateral comparison method of classifying languages is described and analyzed. It is suggested that while it is espoused as a simple and reasonable approach to language classification, the method has serious flaws. "Multilateral" or "mass" comparison (MC) is not a method of genetic language…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Tauli, Valter – 1968
Although technical and social engineering and planning have made tremendous progress, an almost prescientific attitude regarding language planning still prevails in some linguistic circles. (Language planning is defined here as the "methodical activity of regulating and improving existing languages or creating new common regional, national or…
Descriptors: Dialects, Diglossia, Evaluation Criteria, Graphemes
