Meaning of long ranger | Babel Free

Definitions

A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already established language families by comparing proto-languages.

Examples

“He thinks that long-rangers often use⟳ Pokorny's material uncritically ("fishing expeditions in Pokorny's") although it is considered to be dated in many respects by the modern state of Indo-European studies.”

“Yes, all the long rangers, as far as I can tell⟳, are not controlling for the possibility that the similarities between languages they are working on fall⟳ within the range of what one would expect⟳ by chance alone.”

“This painstaking process⟳ of checking texts and cultural data rather than dictionaries may seem to be not worth the candle for some (but not all) long-rangers.”

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