http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Languoid&feed=atom&action=historyLanguoid - Revision history2024-03-28T12:05:25ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.34.2http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Languoid&diff=5883&oldid=prevCysouw at 08:56, 10 April 20082008-04-10T08:56:38Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A '''languoid''' is a set of [[lect]]s or [[language]]s that are grouped together for some purpose. In the simplest case, languoids are languages or [[dialect]]s, but [[genealogical group]]s of languages (or areal groups, or indeed any other groups treated together by linguists for some reason) may also be considered together with languages and dialects and hence be subsumed with them under a single concept.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A '''languoid''' <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(or 'language-like entity') </ins>is a set of [[lect]]s or [[language]]s that are grouped together for some purpose. In the simplest case, languoids are languages or [[dialect]]s, but [[genealogical group]]s of languages (or <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[linguistic area|</ins>areal groups<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, or indeed any other groups treated together by linguists for some reason) may also be considered together with languages and dialects and hence be subsumed with them under a single concept.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::*''"a cover term for any type of lingual entity: language, dialect, family, language area, etc. It is roughly similar to the term ''taxon'' from biological taxonomy, except it is agnostic as to whether the relevant linguistic grouping is considered to be genealogical or areal (or based one some other possible criteria for grouping languages)"'' (Good & Hendryx-Parker 2006:5)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:::*''"a cover term for any type of lingual entity: language, dialect, family, language area, etc. It is roughly similar to the term ''taxon'' from biological taxonomy, except it is agnostic as to whether the relevant linguistic grouping is considered to be genealogical or areal (or based one some other possible criteria for grouping languages)"'' (Good & Hendryx-Parker 2006:5)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">===Comments===</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This term arose in the context of cross-linguistic databases, where it is often useful to refer to languages, groups of languages, and groups of lects with a single term<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. However, there are many day-to-day situations in which it is fruitful to remain agnostic about the kind of grouping proposed, e.g. when one is not certain whether a group of highly similar languages is a genealogical unit or a linguistic area. Another case of productive agnosticism is the perennial question whether a set of highly similar speech varieties should be called a language with different [[lect|lectal]] variants, or a low-level genealogical group consisting of different languages. In all these situations, the groups are perfectly legitimate languoids, though researcher might disagree about their status.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">===Definition===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In a very strict sense, a languoid can be defined recursively as a set of (lower-level) languoids. The lowest level languoid (needed to stop recursion) is a [[doculect]] (a "documented language variety"). Under this definition, any lect, language, family, or area is defined as a hierarchical ordering of sources</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The term <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was coined by </del>[[Jeff Good]] in 2006. It consists of the root ''langu-'' (from English ''language'') and the suffix ''-oid'' ('X-like entity').</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The term <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">originated in a discussion between [[Michael Cysouw]] and </ins>[[Jeff Good]] in 2006 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">at the [[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]]</ins>. It consists of the root ''langu-'' (from English ''language'') and the suffix ''-oid'' ('X-like entity').</div></td></tr>
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</table>Cysouwhttp://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Languoid&diff=597&oldid=prevLinguipedia: New page: A '''languoid''' is a set of lects or languages that are grouped together for some purpose. In the simplest case, languoids are languages or dialects, but [[genealogical group]...2007-06-25T18:37:14Z<p>New page: A '''languoid''' is a set of <a href="/index.php/Lect" title="Lect">lects</a> or <a href="/index.php/Language" title="Language">languages</a> that are grouped together for some purpose. In the simplest case, languoids are languages or <a href="/index.php?title=Dialect&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dialect (page does not exist)">dialects</a>, but [[genealogical group]...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''languoid''' is a set of [[lect]]s or [[language]]s that are grouped together for some purpose. In the simplest case, languoids are languages or [[dialect]]s, but [[genealogical group]]s of languages (or areal groups, or indeed any other groups treated together by linguists for some reason) may also be considered together with languages and dialects and hence be subsumed with them under a single concept.<br />
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:::*''"a cover term for any type of lingual entity: language, dialect, family, language area, etc. It is roughly similar to the term ''taxon'' from biological taxonomy, except it is agnostic as to whether the relevant linguistic grouping is considered to be genealogical or areal (or based one some other possible criteria for grouping languages)"'' (Good & Hendryx-Parker 2006:5)<br />
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===Comments===<br />
This term arose in the context of cross-linguistic databases, where it is often useful to refer to languages, groups of languages, and groups of lects with a single term. <br />
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===Origin===<br />
The term was coined by [[Jeff Good]] in 2006. It consists of the root ''langu-'' (from English ''language'') and the suffix ''-oid'' ('X-like entity').<br />
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===Reference===<br />
*Good, Jeff & Calvin Hendryx-Parker. 2006. Modeling Contested Categorization in Linguistic Databases. In ''Proceedings of the EMELD 2006 Workshop on Digital Language Documentation: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art.'' Lansing, Michigan. June 20–22, 2006. [http://www.linguistlist.org/emeld/workshop/2006/papers/GoodHendryxParker-Modelling.pdf PDF]<br />
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