Megalocomparison

Quick meaning: Megalocomparison is a noun meaning (historical linguistics, uncommon, often derogatory) Long-range comparison; especially, far-fetched long-range comparison that cannot sufficiently demonstrate any genetic relationship.

Meaning

(historical linguistics, uncommon, often derogatory) Long-range comparison; especially, far-fetched long-range comparison that cannot sufficiently demonstrate any genetic relationship.

Example Sentences

There have been many recent broadsides on megalocomparison, and those who still think them inappropriate may find this paper a revelation[…]

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include comparand, equiparation, compare, multilog, intercomparison, lexicostatistics.

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