Annotated 50-item wordlist of the basic lexicon of the Ancient Greek languages (the idiolect of Herodotus) |
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Alexei Kassian (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a.kassian@gmail.com) |
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Journal of Language Relationship, № 6, 2011 - p.65-100 |
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The article offers a detailed justification for a standardized 50-item wordlist drawn from the Ancient Greek language of The Histories of Herodotus, which illustrates the new lexicostatistical standard proposed by The Global Lexicostatistical Database project (Moscow / Santa Fe). |
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Keywords: language taxonomy, lexicostatistics, Swadesh wordlist, Ancient Greek, Herodotus |
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