Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation

Autor/a: PALFREYMAN, Nick; SCHEMBRI, Adam
Año: 2022
Editorial: Journal of Sociolinguistics, 26(1): 105-112
Tipo de código: Copyright
Soporte: Digital

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The terms "lumper" and "splitter" have long been used to describe opposing approaches to taxonomy in various fields, such as ethnobiology: on encountering a set of closely related species, splitters name a greater number of distinctions in the set than lumpers. Linguists use these terms to describe contrasting tendencies among those documenting and delineating languages (...)

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