Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation
Año:
2022
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, 26(1): 105-112
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Lingüística
Detalles
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 (...)