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Оглавление - Manual of comparative linguistics
Prefixation Ability Index (PAI) and Verbal Grammar Correlation Index (VGCI)
- 1. Why typology but not lexis should be the base of genetic classification of languages
- 2. Prefixation Ability Index (PAI) allows us to see whether two languages can potentially be genetically related
- 2.1. PAI Method
- 2.1.1. PAI method background
- 2.1.2. PAI hypothesis development
- 2.1.3. PAI calculation algorithm
- 2.1.4. PAI method testing: from a hypothesis toward a theory
- 2.1.5. PAI of a group/stock
- 2.1.6. PAI in diachrony
- 2.1.7. Summary of PAI method
- 2.2. Why is it possible to prove that languages are not related?
- 2.3. Applying PAI method to some unsettled hypotheses
- 2.3.1. PAI against Nostratic hypothesis
- 2.3.2. Whether Ainu belongs to Altaic stock?
- 2.3.3. PAI suggests that Buyeo stock seems to be real
- 2.3.4. PAI against Mudrak’s hypotheses
- 2.3.5. Potential relatives of Ainu seem to be in South
- 2.3.6. Particular conclusion about PAI method
- 3. Verbal Grammar Correlation Index (VGCI)
- 3.1. VGCI Method
- 3.1.1. VGCI method background
- 3.1.2. Why the method is about verb?
- 3.1.3. General scheme of VGCI calculation
- 3.2. VGCI illustration and searching for threshold values
- 3.2.1. VGCI of English and Russian
- 3.2.2. VGCI of English and Lithuanian
- 3.2.3. VGCI of English and Latin
- 3.2.4. VGCI English and Persian
- 3.2.5. VGCI of Chinese and Tibetan
- 3.2.6. VGCI of Khmer and Vietnamese
- 3.2.7. VGCI of Hawaiian and Lha’alua
- 3.3. Measurement error
- 3.3.1. New list of Hawaiian forms
- 3.3.2. New VGCI of Hawaiian and Lha’alua
- 3.3.3. Measurement of error estimation
- 3.4. Whether is it possible for random languages to be coincidentially related
- 3.4.1. Estimation of probability of coincidence
- 3.4.2. Test of VGCI of randomly chosen languages with close values of PAI
- 3.5. Values of VGCI thresholds
- 3.6. Representation of grammar systems as topological vector space: key to further formalization of linguistics
- 4. VGCI proves unrelatedness
- 4.1. VGCI proves that Ainu and Austronesian are unrelated
- 4.1.1. VGCI of Ainu and Lha’alua
- 4.1.2. VGCI of Ainu and Cham
- 4.1.3. VGCI of Ainu and Hawaiian
- 4.1.4. Conclusion: Ainu isn’t relative of Austronesian stock
- 4.2. VGCI proves that Ainu and Mon-Khmer stock are unrelated
- 4.2.1. VGCI of Ainu and Khmer
- 4.2.2. VGCI of Ainu and Vietnamese
- 4.2.3. Conclusion: Ainu isn’t relative of Mon-Khmer stock
- 4.3. VGCI proves that Itelmen and Nivkh are not relatives
- 5. VGCI proves relatedness
- 5.1. VGCI proves that Austronesian and Mon-Khmer stocks are relatives
- 5.1.1. Khmer and Austronesian
- 5.1.2 Austronesian and Vietnamese
- 5.1.3. Conclusion about Aunstronesian and Mon-Khmer stocks genetic relationship
- 5.2. VGCI proves close relationship of Japanese and Korean
- 5.2.1. VGCI of Japanese and Korean
- 5.2.2. VGCI values of closely related languages
- 5.2.3. Conclusions about Buyeo group
- 6. General conclusion
- References