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- Title
Linguistic history and historical linguistics.
- Authors
van Driem, George
- Abstract
This invited response to a piece by LaPolla, published in issue 39/2 of LTBA, addresses both LaPolla’s misrepresentations of the history of linguistics and his flawed understanding of historical linguistics. The history of linguistic thought with regard to the Tibeto-Burman or Trans-Himalayan language family vs. the Indo-Chinese or “Sino-Tibetan” family tree model is elucidated and juxtaposed against the remarkable robustness of certain ahistorical myths and the persistence of unscientific argumentation by vocal proponents of the Sino-Tibetanist paradigm, such as LaPolla.
- Subjects
SINO-Tibetan languages; LANGUAGE &; languages; DIALECTS; TAI languages; VOCAL cues
- Publication
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 1, p106
- ISSN
0731-3500
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ltba.18005.dri