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The height of Benedictine megalocomparative ingenuity is reached in the concept of split cognates, i.e. cognates that have reflexes of at most one given proto-phoneme in common, since they descend from different syllables of a polysyllabic etymon.
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In a recent disquisition on very large-scale linguistic comparisons, James A. Matisoff discusses the megalocomparisons performed by Joseph H. Greenberg on Amerindian and Benedict on AT, critically appraises their megalo comparative ^([sic]) methodology […]
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Ironically, this interpretation also found its way into the science fiction literature of modern megalocomparative linguistics[…]
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