long ranger

Definitions

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   A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already…

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

   • 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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