Megalocomparison takes on any more remote relationship, where sound-correspondences are not regular and putative cognates are few, so that chance rivals genetic relationship as the explanation for perceived similarities.
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Megalocomparison
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There have been many recent broadsides on megalocomparison, and those who still think them inappropriate may find this paper a revelation[…]
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It seems to be part of a larger project of megalo-comparison whose aim is ultimately to reduce the number of language families in the world to a much smaller number than is now normally accepted.
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