Meaning of megalocomparative | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to megalocomparison.

derogatory, historical, often, rare

Examples

“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.”

“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 […]”

“Ironically, this interpretation also found its way into the science fiction literature of modern megalocomparative linguistics[…]”

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