Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Abstract

The first issue of Diachronica contained an evaluation of the comparative method as applied to “exotic” languages (Boretzky 1984). Thirty years later, it is worth taking stock of what our discipline has accomplished and identifying future priorities and pressing issues that have (re-)emerged. The following represents the considered judgement of several practitioners in language families from a large region of the world that is underrepresented in international fora. The ideas were first presented during the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 20), Osaka, Japan, 2011.

Authors

Harald Koch, Robert Mailhammer, Robert A. Blust, Claire Bowern, Don Daniels, Alexandre François, Simon J. Greenhill, Brian Joseph, Lawrence A. Reid, Malcolm D. Ross, Paul Sidwell

Citation

Koch H, Mailhammer R, Blust R, Bowern C, Daniels D, François A, Greenhill SJ, Joseph B, Reid L, Ross M & Sidwell P. 2014. Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific. Diachronica, 31:2, 267-278.

Published 19 August 2014

@article{Koch2014,
  title = {Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific},
  author = {Koch, Harald and Mailhammer, Robert and Blust, Robert A. and Bowern, Claire and Daniels, Don and François, Alexandre and Greenhill, Simon J. and Joseph, Brian and Reid, Lawrence A. and Ross, Malcolm D. and Sidwell, Paul},
  journal = {Diachronica},
  volume = {31},
  number = {2},
  pages = {267--278},
  publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  year = {2014},
  doi = {10.1075/dia.31.2.04koc},
  url = {https://simon.net.nz/articles/research-priorities-in-historical-comparative-linguistics-a-view-from-asia-australia-and-the-pacific/},
}

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